The fine is among the largest an Italian authority has imposed on a tech giant and Meta says it plans to appeal the decisionItaly’s data protection agency has fined Facebook parent company Meta €805m ($887m) for accessing users’ photos without their specific consent.Through the Facebook application for Android devices, Meta accessed photographs, v…
Italy fines Meta $887m for accessing Android users’ photos and videos
The fine is among the largest an Italian authority has imposed on a tech giant and Meta says it plans to appeal the decisionItaly’s data protection agency has fined Facebook parent company Meta €805m ($887m) for accessing users’ photos without their specific consent.Through the Facebook application for Android devices, Meta accessed photographs, v…
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