South Korea’s data protection regulator has fined Chinese ecommerce giant Temu nearly one million dollars (1.39 billion won) for illegally transferring Korean users’ personal information to China and other countries.
Temu outsources and stores users’ data with companies in several countries, including China, Singapore, South Korea and Japan, But the firm “failed to disclose in its privacy policy or notify users that personal data would be entrusted to overseas entities.”
Read more at Economic Times.