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How Facebook Collected And Sold South Koreans’ Private Data

Meta, the company behind Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, is in hot water again. South Korea’s privacy watchdog has fined the social media giant a staggering $15.67 million for secretly collecting and sharing sensitive personal information of users without their permission.

Here’s what happened: South Korea’s Personal Information Protection Commission (PIPC) launched an investigation into Meta. They discovered that Meta had gathered private details from about 980,000 South Korean Faceb...

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