Meta technology giant has been fined 805m euros by Italian authorities, due to access to photos and videos of Android users without their consent.
According to the Italian Authority for Data Protection, some 20 million users had not been properly informed that Facebook had access to their galleries through a function suggesting photos and videos for publishing.
The authority has given the company 60 days to disable this post as pre-election and to seek particular approval of users.
According to the BBC, the regulator estimated that Facebook announcement did not make it clear that the app could use stored photos on the phone to create suggestions for publication.
The large number of affected persons and Meta’s lack of co-operation were cited as the reason for the high fine.
This is one of the biggest fines imposed by an Italian authority on a technology company.
Meta, who also owns the Instagram and Whatsapp, has recently faced a fine of $25 billion in New Mexico, U.S.A., regarding the treatment of user data.
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