Meta found to have exposed info on North Korean defectors to advertisers
METAMeta Platforms(META) TechCrunch·2024-11-05 23:30

In Brief Meta has added another privacy sanction to its extensive collection: South Korea’s data protection agency fined the social media giant around $15.7 million for processing sensitive user data and passing it to advertisers without a proper legal basis, Reuters reports. Seoul’s Personal Information Protection Commission (PIPC) found Facebook’s parent collected information from about 980,000 users, on sensitive topics such as politics, sexuality and religion, without obtaining their permission. It then ...