South Korea’s Personal Information Protection Commission says that during a four-year investigation, “Meta” illegally collected sensitive information about about 980,000 Facebook users, including their religious beliefs, political views and whether they joined same-sex unions.
The Commission reports that the company has transferred this data to approximately 4,000 advertisers.
South Korea’s privacy law strictly protects information related to personal beliefs, political views, and sexual behavior, and prohibits companies from processing or using such data without the consent of the individual. involved in it.
The Commission explains that “Meta” collected sensitive information by analyzing the pages that Facebook users like or the ads they have seen.
The commission also says that Meta interfered with the privacy of Facebook users by failing to implement basic security measures, such as deleting or blocking inactive pages.
This allowed hackers to use inactive pages to request fake identities and password resets for other Facebook user accounts.
