South Korea fines Meta about $15 million over collection of user data

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South Korea fines Meta about $15 million over collection of user data

SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korea has ordered

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owner Meta Platforms to pay 21.62 billion won ($15.67 million) in fines after finding it had collected sensitive user data and given it to advertisers without a legal basis, Seoul’s data protection agency said.

The U.S. tech giant obtained information from about 980,000 South Korean

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users on issues such as their religion, political views and sexuality while failing to seek agreement from users, the Personal Information Protection Commission said in a statement on Tuesday.

The information was then used by some 4,000 advertisers, the agency said.

A Meta Korea official declined to comment.

“Specifically, it has been found that (Meta) analysed user behaviour data such as pages they liked and advertisements they clicked on

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and created and managed advertising themes related to sensitive information,” the commission said.

This included users being categorised for example as being North Korean defectors, following a certain religion, or identifying as a transgender or gay person, the agency said.

Meta had also unfairly declined a request by users to access personal information and ******* to prevent data on about 10 South Koreans from being leaked by hackers, the agency said.

($1 = 1,379.5200 won)

(Reporting by Hyunsu Yim; Editing by Ed Davies and Mark Potter)

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