S. Korean top court rejects Meta’s appeal over user data sharing fine. Personal information of at least 3.3 million South Korean users had been provided to third parties without their knowledge from May 2012 to June 2018. Last year, Meta Platforms Ireland lost a legal battle to defy the South Korean data protection watchdog’s decision to slap a fine for providing users’ personal information to other operators without consent. The Supreme Court, however, found the PIPC’s measures lawful and dismissed the case, upholding lower court rulings made in October 2023 and September last year, according to the sources. The watchdog said it would proceed with enforcing corrective measures, which had been suspended due to the ongoing lawsuit. The case was settled out of court in March 2021, with the fine set at 6.7 billion-won ($4.6 million) by the data protection commission. The fine was later reduced to $4.5 million. The investigation was carried out by the Korea Data Protection Commission (PIPC) and the case is still ongoing.