South Korea privacy authority fines Meta 21.62 billion won ($15.67 million) for illegally collecting sensitive personal info from Facebook users, including data about their political views & sexual orientation, & sharing it with advertisers without their consent
The Hacker News
South Korea Fines Meta $15.67M for Illegally Sharing Sensitive User Data with Advertisers
Meta fined $15.67M in South Korea for illegal data collection and sharing sensitive user data.
Just watched a disturbing SkyNews report on scam centres in Asia .. focussing on Cambodia
Sky News
'They fall in love with me': Inside the fraud factories driving the online scam boom | World News | Sky News
Based in heavily guarded compounds, these scam centres are spread across South east Asia. Sky News has gone undercover to expose the reality of lif...
 (there’s a programme tonight at 9pm) People are also trafficked as ‘cyber slaves’ Also reported in 2022
Al Jazeera
Meet Cambodia’s cyber slaves
In Cambodia, thousands of foreigners are trafficked, enslaved in compounds and forced to scam by cyber-fraud syndicates.
 And July this year
Cambodia’s Cyber-Slavery Trafficking Denials Reflect Official Complicity, Experts Say
Despite growing evidence that Cambodia has become a source of industrial-scale cyber-scams, the authorities continue to downplay the extent of the ...