The tech giant obtained information on nearly 980,000 South Korean Facebook users about their religious beliefs, political views and more.
South Korea has ordered Facebook owner Meta Platforms to pay 21.62 billion won ($15.67 million) in fines after the company was found to have collected sensitive user data and shared it with advertisers without legal grounds. Reuters wrote this on Tuesday, November 5.
The technology giant received information about nearly 980 thousand Facebook users in South Korea about their religious beliefs and political views.
Subsequently, nearly four thousand advertisers used the information.
“Separately, it was discovered that the company analyzed data about user behavior, such as the pages they liked and the ads they clicked on Facebook, and created and managed advertising based on users’ sensitive information. .” – said the statement of the Commission for the Protection of Personal Data.
The European Union’s top privacy regulator previously fined Meta for storing some users’ passwords without protection or encryption.
As a reminder, a group of 83 Spanish media outlets filed a €550 million lawsuit against Meta for violating EU data protection rules.
Source: korrespondent
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