Italy's data protection agency said on Saturday it had fined Meta Platforms 805 million euros ($887 million) for allegedly accessing Android users' photographs and videos without obtaining their consent or informing them. The authority said Meta gained access to this content through a Facebook app feature that suggested items from users' personal galleries for posting.

Meta has 60 days to disable the feature by default and to seek users' consent separately, the authority added. Meta was not immediately available for comment. The fine is equivalent to about 0.47% of the group's global revenue, the authority said.S1

The investigation, which began in 2025, did not cover the possible use of the content to train artificial intelligence models, a practice Meta denied, the authority said. It reserved the right to separately assess a new feature launched in 2026 that allows content from users' galleries to be processed in the cloud.S1