Claims extracted
12
sentences that state something as happening or true
Uncertain
17%
2 of 12 hedged
("reportedly", "may", "according to")
Leaning
not political
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Publisher signals
60/100
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Italian regulators have fined Meta 805 million euros ($887m) for accessing users’ photos without their consent.
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regulators → fin → consent
The Facebook app on Android devices “accessed photos, videos and associated metadata stored on Italian users’ smartphones without specific consent and without informing them”, Garante, the Italian data privacy authority, said Saturday.
asserted
Garante → access → them
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it → go → development
tech founders leave, what happens to their companies?
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what → leave → companies
The issue relates specifically to the “Get suggestions from gallery when browsing Facebook” feature, which suggests photos and videos from the phone’s gallery for posting while browsing.
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which → relate → gallery
This feature violates the Italian law implementing the EU’s ePrivacy directive, the authority said.
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authority → violate → directive
Garante said the app’s process for collecting consent is too generic and does not allow users to fully understand the specific permissions they are allowing by accepting.
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they → say → permissions
The suggestions option was also enabled by default.
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option → enable → default
The figure of 805 million euros is by far the largest fine ever imposed by the Italian regulator.
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figure → impose → regulator
Garante said Meta must fix the unclear consent notification and disable it being set by default, suggesting that roughly 20 million Italian Android users could have been affected by it.
The regulator also highlighted a “lack of cooperation” by Meta and said an earlier violation, which resulted in a 2019 fine, was a contributing factor in their decision.
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which → say → decision
The proceedings did not address the possible use of content to train artificial intelligence, which Meta denies.
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Meta → address → which
Meta has not yet publicly commented on the matter, and it has the right to appeal the regulator’s decision.
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it → comment → decision
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