South Korean privacy watchdog apologises for violating privacy while mediating privacy lawsuit
(2021/11/17)
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South Korea's privacy watchdog leaked personal information relating to participants in a case that sought to probe Facebook's leak of personal information.
"Recently, while handling a Facebook collective dispute mediation case, an accident occurred in which the personal information in the dispute mediation was leaked to other applicants. We deeply apologize to the victims and the public for the fact that such a leak occurred," [1]wrote Yoon Jong-in of the Personal Information Protection Commission (PIPC) on Monday, as machine-translated from Korean.
The PIPC was arbitrating a case against Facebook for leaking personal data of 181 users when the watchdog sent out the information of the entire group to 19 people. In late October, the PIPC had ordered Facebook to pay ₩300,000 ($254) to each of the 181 petitioners for passing their personal information to over 10,000 third-party app developers without consent.
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Yoon said the PIPC was investigating his organization's information leaks, as he pledged support and dispute resolution services for petitioners impacted by the accident.
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The PIPC has dealt with Facebook leaks in the past, without itself leaking. In November 2020, the watchdog fined The Social Network™ ₩6.7 billion ($5.6M) for leaking 3.3 million Korean users' data – including lists of their Facebook friends – without their consent over a six year time period.
In August 2021, Facebook was [6]ordered to pay ₩6.46 billion ($5.5M) for creating and storing facial recognition templates for 200,000 local users between April 2018 and September 2019 without proper consent. ®
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[1] https://www.pipc.go.kr/np/cop/bbs/selectBoardArticle.do;jsessionid=+w+ePv4pByobQgMyBg5JP0Dp.pips_home_jboss21
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[5] https://www.theregister.com/2021/10/26/kt_outage_bgp_not_ddos/
[6] https://www.theregister.com/2021/08/26/facebook_fined_by_south_korea/
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"Recently, while handling a Facebook collective dispute mediation case, an accident occurred in which the personal information in the dispute mediation was leaked to other applicants. We deeply apologize to the victims and the public for the fact that such a leak occurred," [1]wrote Yoon Jong-in of the Personal Information Protection Commission (PIPC) on Monday, as machine-translated from Korean.
The PIPC was arbitrating a case against Facebook for leaking personal data of 181 users when the watchdog sent out the information of the entire group to 19 people. In late October, the PIPC had ordered Facebook to pay ₩300,000 ($254) to each of the 181 petitioners for passing their personal information to over 10,000 third-party app developers without consent.
[2]
Yoon said the PIPC was investigating his organization's information leaks, as he pledged support and dispute resolution services for petitioners impacted by the accident.
[3]Netflix shows South Korea a rerun of 'We Won't Pay Your Telcos For Bandwidth'
[4]There, that wasn't so hard, was it? South Korea makes Google allow rival payment systems in Play store apps
[5]South Korean telco goes down, blames DDoS attack, later admits its BGP broke
The PIPC has dealt with Facebook leaks in the past, without itself leaking. In November 2020, the watchdog fined The Social Network™ ₩6.7 billion ($5.6M) for leaking 3.3 million Korean users' data – including lists of their Facebook friends – without their consent over a six year time period.
In August 2021, Facebook was [6]ordered to pay ₩6.46 billion ($5.5M) for creating and storing facial recognition templates for 200,000 local users between April 2018 and September 2019 without proper consent. ®
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[1] https://www.pipc.go.kr/np/cop/bbs/selectBoardArticle.do;jsessionid=+w+ePv4pByobQgMyBg5JP0Dp.pips_home_jboss21
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[3] https://www.theregister.com/2021/11/08/netflix_south_korea_network_use_fees_dispute/
[4] https://www.theregister.com/2021/11/04/google_thirdparty_payments_apps_south_korea/
[5] https://www.theregister.com/2021/10/26/kt_outage_bgp_not_ddos/
[6] https://www.theregister.com/2021/08/26/facebook_fined_by_south_korea/
[7] https://whitepapers.theregister.com/
Re: *FacePalm* DOH!
CrackedNoggin
Since the total fine in question is 19x$254 ~= $5,000, then why not?
Refreshing wording of the apology
pavel.petrman
Interesting to see words like "leak", "victim" and "apologize"[sic!] in report on an own goal. Altough the "victims" may regard the Facebook case rather than the lak in question, the rest is good. One is more likely to read about a small portion of account being accessed in a way not sanctioned by the terms of service and the leaking company regretting deeply the media coverage regarding the case. Usually makes one think of ways to make the leaker regret other things, too.
*FacePalm* DOH!
Will the privacy agency now also fine themselves the same amount of money they did to FB, also to be paid to the victims of the second privacy cockup?