Over and over again Meta just shows itself to be a bad actor, so why does anyone use their spyware or even their platform at all (including Instagram, Threads, Whatsapp…)? And they don’t really care about the fines, as they make plenty and will continue to do the bidding of governments, specifically ours. Consequently, they’re advertising their AI agent Muse so heavily I’ve got that stupid song stuck in my head, which I must of heard a dozen or more times during the UFC event yesterday. Muse’s primary mission is to further build out your detailed psychological profile with Meta so they can feed it to the government and profit from it through advertisements, and remember how they cooperated with the Biden administration during COVID… And back in the day, the CIA’s venture capitalist operation In-Q-Tel supposedly routed investment money through Peter Thiel of Palantir and Anduril, with Anduril having a commercial for their advanced military technology during the UFC event yesterday…
https://apnews.com/article/italy-meta-android-facebook-feature-9b3073c52464d5cd0e8facbc57285194
ROME (AP) — Italy announced an €805 million ($887 million) fine against Meta on Saturday for using photos and videos from Android users’ galleries on Facebook without specific consent or adequate disclosure.
The Italian Data Protection Authority said the feature, called “Get suggestions from gallery when browsing Facebook,” violated a European privacy directive incorporated into Italian law. The directive protects smartphones as part of a person’s private sphere and requires “free and informed consent” for such access, the authority said.
Investigators found that the feature was enabled by default and that Facebook requested gallery access through a single permission covering multiple app functions with different purposes.
The authority gave Meta 60 days to disable the feature and seek separate consent for its use. Italy has about 20 million Android users, the agency said.
Meta made no immediate comment.
The fine was imposed on Meta Platforms Ireland Limited, which challenged Italy’s jurisdiction, according to the statement.
The authority said Meta’s “lack of cooperation” with the investigation factored into the penalty, which amounts to approximately 0.47% of the group’s global turnover.