The Competition Authority blocked the use of Threads in Turkey as of April 29, 2024. Now a huge fine has been imposed for Meta.
A fine of 335 million TL was imposed
In the statement made by the Competition Authority Meta To log in to your company’s Threads application, you must have an Instagram account. to oblige An investigation was launched upon the claim that the Threads account of those who wanted to delete their Instagram account was also forcibly deleted.
With the preliminary research, it was realized that the data collected in accordance with Meta Company’s data combination policies could be transferred between Instagram and Threads and used for other corporate services and was examined. daily 4 million 796 thousand TL The punishment was terminated and a greater punishment was imposed.
Such a final decision was taken after the daily fine was imposed. In order to comply with the precautionary decision, Meta use without profile He presented the proposal, but it was thought that the security problems would not be solved and it was rejected. Currently, a new solution for combining user data has not been found.
