Meta fined 15 million dollars in South Korea
reported by Meta, the owner of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp Apps illegally collect users’ sensitive information provides and makes it available to advertising companies.
Accordingly, Meta paid 21 billion won Korea has been sentenced to a fine of 15.67 million dollars.
According to South Korea’s Personal Information Protection Committee, Meta data of 980,000 Korean citizens without users’ permission. which includes their religion, gender, and political orientation.
It is noteworthy that this information has been provided to 4 thousand advertising companies.
This committee also announced that Meta failed to protect the information of a number of users against hackers.
The point of shock Avar is that meta It analyzed users’ information and drew an advertising model for them based on their favorite pages or ads they clicked on Facebook.
