GoKawiilItaly fines Meta $887M over Facebook's camera-roll access feature
Italy's Data Protection Authority fined Meta Platforms Ireland Limited 805 million euros (about $887 million) for failing to obtain specific consent before accessing Android users' photos, videos and metadata through Facebook's camera roll sharing suggestions feature. The regulator said the single app-wide permission request improperly covered multiple functions, giving Meta broad ongoing access without properly informing users. The probe began in July 2025 after a complaint from the Bolzano Consumer Protection Centre.
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The ruling requires Meta to obtain separate, specific consent within 60 days and to turn the feature off by default even for users who already agreed to it, which could force broader changes to how Meta designs permission requests across its apps. The fine, equal to 0.47 percent of Meta's global revenue, adds to mounting legal pressure on the company, including a separate $25 billion penalty ordered by a New Mexico judge over the Cambridge Analytica data scandal.
- Italy fined Meta roughly $887 million over inadequate consent for photo and video access on Android.
- Meta must secure specific user consent within 60 days and disable the camera-roll feature by default.
- The penalty follows a Bolzano consumer group complaint and adds to Meta's growing list of legal and regulatory challenges.
Source: engadget.com — Jackson Chen, 2026-11-15
Published there as: “Italy orders Meta to pay $887M for not obtaining specific consent over user photos”
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