SEOUL: South Korea has fined Google and Meta more than US$71mil (RM321.38mil) collectively for gathering users’ personal information without consent for tailored ads, regulators said Wednesday, the country’s highest-ever data protection fines.
Investigations into the two US tech giants found they had been “collecting and analysing” data on their users, and monitoring their use of websites and applications, the Personal Information Protection Commission said.
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