The penalty amounts to roughly 0.4% of the group's annual turnover, which reached $201 billion in 2025. Meta reported a net profit of $60.5 billion that year.
The case covers a large share of the Italian market. The authority said about 20 million Android users in the country were affected by the way the company obtained access to private photo libraries.
The penalty concerns Facebook's gallery suggestions feature, available since 2023, which proposes photos and videos from a user's phone gallery as ideas for posts while the person is browsing.
According to the regulator, Facebook requested gallery access through a single authorisation valid for the entire app. That request was preceded by a generic notice about enabling other features, which did not allow users to understand that they were also authorising suggestions from their galleries.
In setting the size of the fine, the authority said it took into account"the high number of people affected"and the duration of the infringement.
A company spokesperson said"we strongly disagree"with the regulators' assessment"and the disproportionate level of the fine".