# Italy fines Meta €805m over Facebook’s access to Android photo galleries

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/italy-fines-meta-887m-for-accessing-android-users-photos-and-videos/
- Published: 2026-11-15T02:02:01+00:00
- Updated: 2026-11-15T09:47:21+00:00
- Original publisher: The Guardian (publisher lean: Left)
- Original article: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/nov/15/italy-fines-meta-887m-for-accessing-android-users-photos-and-videos
- Topics: Business, Companies, Europe, Gadgets, Technology, World

## Key points

- Italy fined Meta €805m over Facebook’s access to users’ galleries.
- About 20 million Android users were affected.
- Meta plans to appeal and disputes the penalty.

## Summary

Italy’s data protection agency has fined Meta €805m ($887m) for accessing Italian Android users’ photos and videos through Facebook’s gallery suggestions feature without specific consent or adequate information. Meta disputes the decision and says it will appeal; the case could require clearer consent for features that use personal data.

The feature, available since 2023, suggests images from a phone gallery as possible posts. The regulator said a single, generic authorisation did not make clear that users were also agreeing to gallery access, and ordered Meta to seek separate consent and explain how to disable the feature. About 20 million Android users in Italy were affected; the authority cited the scale and duration of the issue and Meta’s lack of cooperation when setting the fine, which is about 0.4% of its 2025 annual turnover.

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