{"id":873900,"date":"2024-11-06T08:55:54","date_gmt":"2024-11-06T03:25:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=873900"},"modified":"2024-11-06T09:05:27","modified_gmt":"2024-11-06T03:35:27","slug":"south-korea-fines-meta-for-illegal-collection-of-user-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2024\/11\/06\/south-korea-fines-meta-for-illegal-collection-of-user-data\/","title":{"rendered":"South Korea fines Meta for illegal collection of user data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SEOUL, South Korea: US tech giant Meta illegally harvested sensitive data including on sexual orientation from nearly a million South Korean Facebook users and shared it with advertisers, Seoul&#8217;s data watchdog said Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p>The firm, which also owns Instagram, violated South Korean laws prohibiting the use of information on political opinions, religious beliefs and people&#8217;s sex life unless the individual provides explicit consent, Seoul&#8217;s Personal Information Protection Commission said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SEOUL, South Korea: US tech giant Meta illegally harvested sensitive data including on sexual orientation from nearly a million South Korean Facebook users and shared it with advertisers, Seoul&#8217;s data watchdog said Tuesday. The firm, which also owns Instagram, violated South Korean laws prohibiting the use of information on political opinions, religious beliefs and people&#8217;s sex life unless the individual provides explicit consent, Seoul&#8217;s Personal Information Protection Commission said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-873900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-new-indian-express","category-newspapers","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=873900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873900\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=873900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=873900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=873900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}