{"id":10903,"date":"2026-11-15T12:12:41","date_gmt":"2026-11-15T12:12:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/11\/15\/italy-fines-meta-e805-million-over-facebooks-android-gallery-access-without-explicit-consent\/"},"modified":"2026-11-15T12:12:41","modified_gmt":"2026-11-15T12:12:41","slug":"italy-fines-meta-e805-million-over-facebooks-android-gallery-access-without-explicit-consent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/11\/15\/italy-fines-meta-e805-million-over-facebooks-android-gallery-access-without-explicit-consent\/","title":{"rendered":"Italy Fines Meta \u20ac805 Million Over Facebook&#8217;s Android Gallery Access Without Explicit Consent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bMeta was fined \u20ac805 million in Italy yesterday over a Facebook for Android feature that suggests photos and videos from users&#8217; phone galleries for them to post.<\/p>\n<p>The Garante, Italy&#8217;s data protection authority, found that the feature was enabled by default and that the app accessed Italian users&#8217; photos, videos, and related metadata without their explicit consent.<\/p>\n<p>The company has 60 days to\u00a0Meta was fined \u20ac805 million in Italy yesterday over a Facebook for Android feature that suggests photos and videos from users&#8217; phone galleries for them to post.<\/p>\n<p>The Garante, Italy&#8217;s data protection authority, found that the feature was enabled by default and that the app accessed Italian users&#8217; photos, videos, and related metadata without their explicit consent.<\/p>\n<p>The company has 60 days to\u00a0\u00a0The Hacker News<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bMeta was fined \u20ac805 million in Italy yesterday over a Facebook for Android feature that suggests photos and videos from users&#8217; phone galleries for them to post. The Garante, Italy&#8217;s data protection authority, found that the feature was enabled by default and that the app accessed Italian users&#8217; photos, videos, and related metadata without their&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/11\/15\/italy-fines-meta-e805-million-over-facebooks-android-gallery-access-without-explicit-consent\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Italy Fines Meta \u20ac805 Million Over Facebook&#8217;s Android Gallery Access Without Explicit Consent<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":10904,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10903"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10903\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}