Personal Information Protection Commission (PIPC) in South Korea has fined Meta $15.6 million for collecting and using sensitive data without obtaining consent from users.
Meta has faced similar penalties in other countries, most recently from Ireland, as the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) fined Meta €91 million for storing hundreds of millions of users’ passwords in plain text.
One of the largest fines issued to Meta, from the Irish Data Protection Authority (IE DPA), amounted to €1
