SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korea has actually bought Facebook proprietor Meta Platforms to pay 21.62 billion won ($ 15.67 million) in penalties after locating it had actually accumulated delicate individual information and offered it to marketers without a lawful basis, Seoul’s information security company claimed.
The united state technology titan acquired details from concerning 980,000 South Korean Facebook customers on concerns such as their religious beliefs, political sights and sexuality while falling short to look for contract from customers, the Personal Information Protection Commission claimed in a declaration on Tuesday.
The details was after that made use of by some 4,000 marketers, the company claimed.
A Meta Korea authorities decreased to comment.
“Specifically, it has been found that (Meta) analysed user behaviour data such as pages they liked and advertisements they clicked on Facebook and created and managed advertising themes related to sensitive information,” the payment claimed.
This consisted of customers being categorised for instance as being North Korean defectors, complying with a specific religious beliefs, or recognizing as a transgender or gay individual, the company claimed.
Meta had likewise unjustly decreased a demand by customers to gain access to individual details and fell short to stop information on concerning 10 South Koreans from being dripped by cyberpunks, the company claimed.
($ 1 = 1,379.5200 won)
(Reporting by Hyunsu Yim; Editing by Ed Davies and Mark Potter)
