Facebook, Netflix, And Google Fined For Storing User Data Without Consent
South Korea’s data watchdog, the Personal Information Protection Commission (PIPC), fined Facebook and Netflix for storing user data without consent. Aprivacy auditrevealed last year that Facebook, Netflix, and Google were violating the country’s laws and had insufficient privacy protection. The PIPC fined $5.5 million and $188,000 toFacebookand Netflix, respectively, for user privacy violations. Facebook’s User Data Privacy Violation Facebookcreated and stored facial recognition templates for 200,000 local users between April 2018 and September 2019....