Italy’s regulator said the fine reflected the number of users affected, the continuing breach and Meta’s lack of cooperation. (EPA Images pic)MILAN: Italian regulators fined Facebook parent company Meta €805 million (US$880 million) for accessing users' photos without their "specific" consent, the country's data protection authority said on Saturday.
Through the Facebook application for Android devices, Meta accessed photographs, videos and related metadata belonging to Italian users "without obtaining specific consent and without properly informing them", the authority said in a statement.
In late October, authorities in New Mexico ordered Meta to pay US$25 billion for having misled the state's residents for more than a decade over use of their data – a record fine for the company, which slammed it as a "tax" on freedom of expression.
