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Vietnam fined VNG over Zalo's forced-consent data collection terms and summoned it over competition-law concerns
Jan 22, 2026Vietnam's competition authority summoned VNG over Zalo's updated user terms, which required forced consent to broad data collection days before Vietnam's Personal Data Protection Law took effect in late December 2025. Vietnamese regulators separately fined VNG (alongside TikTok) roughly $64,700 total for user data transgressions on Zalo, and fined VNG over a game distributed with content that did not match its approved license. VNG said it cooperated with authorities and revised several policies.