United Kingdom, Nov. 6 -- South Korea has fined Meta.

The Asian country has slapped the American social media titan with 21.6 billion after the South Korean Personal Information Protection Commission ruled it unlawfully collected and shared sensitive information about around 980,000 Facebook users, such as their religion, political views on sexual orientation from July 2018 to March 2022.

Lee Eun Jung, a director at the commission who led the investigation on Meta, said: "While Meta collected this sensitive information and used it for individualised services, they made only vague mentions of this use in their data policy and did not obtain specific consent."

It said the company shared the data with around 4,000 advertisers.

The commis...