Finalfine · PIPA
PIPC fines Meta KRW 21.6B over sensitive-data collection
₩21.6B
≈ $15M at the time
Personal Information Protection Commission
South Korea · 2024
Status: Final
What happened
South Korea's PIPC fined Meta for collecting sensitive data, including religion, political views, and sexual orientation, on roughly 980,000 users for advertising without consent.
How it affected users
Highly sensitive personal characteristics were gathered and used for ad targeting without permission.
Status timeline
Nov 5, 2024
Penalty announced.
Sources
Last verified 2026-07-02. Spotted an error? Report a correction.
Cite this entry
Deepak Gupta, "PIPC fines Meta KRW 21.6B over sensitive-data collection," Tech Fines Directory, guptadeepak.com, 2024-11-05. https://guptadeepak.com/tech-fines/violation/meta-southkorea-pipc-2024/