Italian authorities have fined the social networking giant Meta at 805m euros (670m euros; $887m), for accessing Android users’ photos without their consent.
The Italian Authority for Data Protection has indicated that Meta had not properly informed some 20 million intelligent phone users that he had access to their photos and videos through a Facebook application function, reports the BBC.
The authority has given Meta 60 days of deadline to disable this function as pre-election and to seek separately the consent of users.
This is one of the greatest fines an Italian authority has ever pronounced against a giant of technology.
The ticket is linked to a function suggesting photos and videos from the user’s telephone gallery as the idea for publication.
Facebook requested access to photos of users through a single authorization to the entire app. According to the Italian regulator, a preliminary announcement did not make it clear that this would enable Facebook to also create suggestions based on photographs preserved in their gallery.
The authority said that in determining the fine it took into account the large number of affected persons and the fact that this practice still continues for those who have not updated the app, as well as for those who have already consented to this system.
And Meta’s lack of cooperation was mentioned as a factor.
The BBC has contacted Meta to get a comment on the issue.
Last month, Meta, the company that also owns the Instagram and WhatsApp, faced the biggest fine ever imposed on her for business practices.
A judge in the state of New Mexico, U.S.A., ordered the company to pay $25 billion ($18.6 billion) after finding that it had deceived the public for years about how it treated Facebook users’ data.
Italy fines Meta 805m euros for access to user photos
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Source Layer: Insander