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Italy says Facebook’s default-on feature could reach photo archives

Facebook introduced the feature in 2023 to recommend photos and videos from users’ phones for sharing. Italy’s data-protection authority says it was enabled by default, while Facebook asked for one permission covering several functions and paired it with a generic warning that didn’t clearly say the app could access a photo gallery. If someone granted gallery permission, the feature could potentially let Facebook access their entire photo archive. The authority says access to information stored on a phone requires freely given, informed consent, whether or not data is later transmitted or harm is demonstrated.

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