Court suspends $147.74 mil. fine imposed on Coupang for unauthorized user data collection
A court on Friday temporarily suspended a 201.1 billion-won ($147.74 million) fine imposed on e-commerce giant Coupang Corp. over unauthorized collection of user data, officials said. Coupang had earlier filed a lawsuit seeking to cancel the penalty surcharges levied by the Personal Information Protection Commission for collecting the online activity records of about 11.17 million users and…
The Seoul Administrative Court has temporarily suspended a 147.74 million U.S. dollar fine imposed on e-commerce giant Coupang Corp. for unauthorized collection of user data. Coupang had initiated a lawsuit to cancel the penalty surcharges levied by the Personal Information Protection Commission for collecting and storing user activity records without consent.
The court granted Coupang's injunction request and suspended the fine execution until 30 days after the first verdict in the main lawsuit seeking cancellation of the surcharges. This decision comes after the commission had previously fined Coupang 423.6 billion won for a data breach affecting over 37 million users, the largest fine ever imposed by the privacy regulator on a single firm.
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