Italy’s data protection authority fined Meta Platforms Inc. €805 million, or about $887 million, after finding that Facebook accessed Android users’ photo and video galleries without specific consent. The feature, which offered gallery-based suggestions while users browsed Facebook, was enabled by default and covered by a single generic permission notice. The authority said that violated Italian privacy protections for smartphones and the European Union’s ePrivacy Directive. Meta has 60 days to turn off the feature by default and provide a separate, specific consent request explaining the gallery access, its purpose and how to disable it. The investigation began in 2025 and did not examine whether the material was used to train artificial-intelligence models, a practice Meta denied. The authority reserved the right to separately assess a cloud-processing feature launched in 2026. The fine represents about 0.47% of Meta’s global revenue and follows other European sanctions, including Ireland’s €1.2 billion data-transfer fine in 2023 and a €200 million European Commission penalty in 2025 over its consent-or-pay advertising model. Meta is also facing U.S. litigation over children’s use of its platforms; states reached a reported $17 billion settlement in August, while Texas separately secured more than $1 billion, bringing reported payments to about $18 billion. The developments come as lawmakers and AI safety advocates push for tighter technology regulation.