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South Korea fines Meta $15 million for illegally collecting information on Facebook users

  • South Korea fined Meta 21.6 billion won for illegally collecting sensitive user information from nearly a million people without consent, as stated by the country’s data watchdog on Nov 5.
  • The Personal Information Protection Commission concluded that Meta unlawfully collected sensitive data about 980,000 Facebook users, including religion and political views, from July 2018 to March 2022.
  • South Korea's privacy law prohibits processing sensitive data without explicit consent, with the commission stating that Meta's practices violated these regulations.
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The Korea Times broke the news in Korea, Republic of on Tuesday, November 5, 2024.
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