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South Korea's PIPC issued a 624.68 billion won ($409M) fine to Coupang today — the largest data privacy penalty in Korean history — after finding the e-commerce giant exposed 37.5 million users' personal data through negligent security practices and secretly tracked 11.17 million additional users across third-party websites.
The FTC has moved to settle its long-running case against Kochava with an order that would stop the data broker from selling Americans' precise location data without explicit consumer consent and impose new compliance controls if the court approves it.
The European Commission says Meta’s age checks did not effectively stop children under 13 from creating or keeping Instagram and Facebook accounts.
Norway says it will send a bill to parliament this year to block under-16s from social media, adding new pressure on platforms to enforce age checks.
Researchers say covert surveillance operators exploited SS7, Diameter, and silent SMS techniques to geolocate targets through telecom infrastructure.