Italy Imposes a Million-Dollar Fine on Meta for Access to Photos without Consent
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Through its Facebook app for Android devices, Meta accessed photographs, videos and associated metadata of Italian users "without having obtained specific consent and without having informed them properly," she denounced the authority in a statement. A Meta spokesperson indicated that the company was "in deep disagreement with the Authority's assessment of the facts, with its interpretation of the law and with the disproportionate amount of the …
Via the Facebook app Meta read photos of 20 million users on Android devices without consent. Now Italy's data protectors impose a penalty.
The Italian data protection authority imposed a fine of USD 880 million (Rp 16 trillion) on Meta, Facebook's parent company.
Source: Diario Popular. The Data Protection Authority of Italy sanctioned Meta with a fine of 805 million euros, equivalent to about 887 million dollars, for irregular access to photos and videos stored on the mobiles of its users. The investigation determined that the company collected files of [...] The Italy ticket fined Meta with almost $900 million for accessing photos and videos of cellulars without permission was first published in Diario…
The regulator pointed out that the American giant accessed the personal files of Italian citizens through the Facebook app.
A spokesman for Meta indicated that the company was “in deep disagreement with the Authority’s assessment of the facts, with its interpretation of the law and with the disproportionate amount of the fine”.
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