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Italy fines Meta $887M over photo privacy: Italy's antitrust

💡 Why it matters

This record fine signals a major escalation in European data enforcement, potentially forcing Meta to redesign its data access practices for millions of users.

Italy's antitrust authority fined Meta €805 million ($887 million) for failing to inform 20 million users about its access to their photos. The penalty stems from Meta's practice of automatically accessing Android users' photo libraries without proper consent.