Italy fines Meta $887M over Android users' data access

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• nsoam 22 minutes ago
  How did they access users photos without consent? Did they run some exploit on Android to access the photo without showing the user the consent prompt? The article is really lacking in details.
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  • klez 3 minutes ago
    This explains a bit better what the issue is: https://en.ilsole24ore.com/art/facebooks-data-protection-reg...

    TL;DR: they didn't thoroughly explain the users what they were consenting to when giving the app access to the gallery.
  • 7bit 9 minutes ago
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• chistev 10 minutes ago
  It seems like every time Meta (Facebook) hits the front page of Hacker News it's for something negative.
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  • NetOpWibby 4 minutes ago
    And if it’s a fine, it’s never in the billions…as usual, a slap on the wrist.
• 7bit 13 minutes ago
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