Italy has imposed a fine of about Rs 8,400 crore on Meta, the parent company of social media platform Facebook. This action has been taken in the matter of accessing the photos of Android users without their explicit consent. According to Italy's Data Protection Authority, Meta was able to view users' photos and videos through a feature of the Facebook app. The regulator says that Meta had not given proper information about this to about two crore users. With the help of this feature, Facebook suggests posts based on the photos and videos present in the gallery of the user's phone. Facebook asked users for permission to access their entire photo gallery through the app only once. But during this time it was not clearly told that with this permission Facebook will also be able to give suggestions of posts based on their photos. The Italian regulator has given Meta 60 days. He will have to prevent this feature from turning on automatically and will have to take separate permission from the users. The regulator said that a large number of people have been affected in this matter. This problem still persists for those who have not updated the app or have already given permission to use this feature.