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Facebook, Netflix & Google fined by South Korean watchdog over privacy violations: Report

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A South Korean watchdog on personal information protection on Wednesday fined major foreign platform service providers nearly 6.7 billion won (US$ 5.7 million) over privacy violations. The Personal Information Protection Commission imposed the penalty on Facebook, Netflix and Google and ordered them to fix the problems following its probe. Facebook was slapped with the heaviest penalty of 6.46 billion won.