{"id":19459,"date":"2026-11-15T09:14:47","date_gmt":"2026-11-15T16:14:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/?p=19459"},"modified":"2026-11-15T09:14:47","modified_gmt":"2026-11-15T16:14:47","slug":"meta-fined-887-million-in-italy-over-android-gallery-photos-and-videos-on-facebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/2026\/11\/15\/meta-fined-887-million-in-italy-over-android-gallery-photos-and-videos-on-facebook\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta Fined $887 Million in Italy Over Android Gallery Photos and Videos on Facebook"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/italy-meta-android-facebook-feature-9b3073c52464d5cd0e8facbc57285194<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n

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ROME (AP) \u2014 Italy announced an \u20ac805 million ($887 million) fine against Meta<\/a> on Saturday for using photos and videos from Android users\u2019 galleries on Facebook without specific consent or adequate disclosure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Italian Data Protection Authority said the feature, called \u201cGet suggestions from gallery when browsing Facebook,\u201d violated a European privacy directive incorporated into Italian law. The directive protects smartphones as part of a person\u2019s private sphere and requires \u201cfree and informed consent\u201d for such access, the authority said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Investigators found that the feature was enabled by default and that Facebook<\/a> requested gallery access through a single permission covering multiple app functions with different purposes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meta made no immediate comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The fine was imposed on Meta Platforms Ireland Limited, which challenged Italy\u2019s jurisdiction, according to the statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The authority said Meta\u2019s \u201clack of cooperation\u201d with the investigation factored into the penalty, which amounts to approximately 0.47% of the group\u2019s global turnover.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech","category-world"],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Jason","author_link":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/author\/jturning\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19459"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19461,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19459\/revisions\/19461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}