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Meta found to have exposed info on North Korean defectors to advertisers
Meta has added another privacy sanction to its extensive collection: South Korea's data protection agency fined the social media giant around $15.7
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. Meta obtained the sensitive behavioral data bpy analyzing pages users had liked and ads they’d clicked on, among other tracking and profiling methods. PIPC said examples of sensitive info the company compiled included users being categorised as North Korean defectors; following a certain religion; or identifying as transgender or gay.
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