23 points giuliomagnifico 58 minutes ago 4 comments

nsoam 23 minutes ago | parent

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.

klez 4 minutes ago | parent

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.

chistev 11 minutes ago | parent

It seems like every time Meta (Facebook) hits the front page of Hacker News it's for something negative.

NetOpWibby 5 minutes ago | parent

And if it’s a fine, it’s never in the billions…as usual, a slap on the wrist.