South Korea’s personal information protection watchdog has fined Facebook and Netflix nearly six-point-seven billion won for violating the country's privacy law.

The Personal Information Protection Commission on Wednesday slapped the six-point-66-billion-won penalty against the overseas platform services and ordered the two and Google to make necessary improvements.

Facebook was given the heaviest penalty of six-point-44 billion won after it was accused of creating and storing facial recognition templates of 200-thousand South Korean users without consent between April 2018 and September 2019.

The U.S.-based company was also fined for illegally collecting resident registration numbers and consigning personal information to another entity.

Netflix was ordered to pay 220 million won in penalties for collecting five million users' personal information without consent before their registration was completed.

Although Google was not fined as it had not violated laws, the platform service provider was advised to improve its legal notification on personal information collection.