S.Korean watchdog looking into Meta’s privacy policy update

Seoul: 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 on Friday.

Meta has since late May sent out notifications to South Korean users of Facebook and another Meta-run platform, Instagram, demanding consent on new terms and conditions of its updated privacy policy.

Meta later postponed the date of the update to August 9.