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Why Meta got an €805m fine: Facebook's Android app never clearly asked to scan photos
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Italy's data protection authority, the Garante, has stated that approximately 20 million individuals using Android devices in Italy did not explicitly consent to Facebook's gallery suggestions feature, which proposes phone photos as potential post content. Facebook asked for gallery access through one permission for the whole app, after a vague prompt, so people couldn't tell what they were switching on.
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