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Personal Info Watchdog Looking into Legality of Meta’s Privacy Policy Update

SEOUL, July 22 (Korea Bizwire) — The Personal Information Protection Commission is looking into whether the upcoming privacy policy update by Meta, the operator of Facebook, runs afoul of domestic law and will take action if any irregularities are found, officials said Friday. Meta has since late May sent out notifications to South Korean users [...]

Mobile Chat App Kakao Decides to Comply with Monitoring Warrants

SEOUL, Oct. 7 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s top mobile messenger operator Kakao Corp. has decided to comply with prosecutors’ requests for access to online conversations, company officials said Wednesday, sparking fresh concerns over the breach of user privacy. The decision came about one year after Kakao, which runs the nation’s No. 1 mobile chat [...]