
The Authority disputes unauthorized access to photos and videos of Android users via the Facebook app
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The provision concerns the 'Get suggestions from the gallery when browsing Facebook' function introduced in 2023.
The Guarantor for the protection of personal data has fined Meta 805 million euros. Through the Facebook app for Android devices - informs the Authority -, "the company had access to photographs, videos and related metadata stored in the smartphones of Italian users without having acquired specific consent and without having adequately informed them". The provision concerns the "Get suggestions from the gallery when you browse Facebook" function, available from 2023, which during navigation offers the user photos and videos taken from the phone's gallery as ideas to publish.

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