South Korea raids Google over Street View
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South Korean police raided Google's offices Tuesday to see whether the company broke local laws by collecting user data in kicking off its Street View service in the country.
The Korean National Police Agency confirmed the probe of the search giant in a statement sent to Reuters and other news sources.
"[The police] have been investigating Google Korea LLC on suspicion of unauthorized collection and storage of data on unspecified Internet users from Wi-Fi networks," the agency said in the statement. "We began the probe after having confirmed that the company seized and kept open data as well as unauthorized private communication data collected by its special data-collecting vehicles."
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Pesky regulations keeping wholesome companies down?
By next week I'll be praising Google for something else, so no worries.
HypnoToad7211th Aug 2010 -
RE: South Korea raids Google over Street View
@HypnoToad72 Or maybe at this point Google can get a clue and remove the code that is collecting the data. If they have not already done so that's pretty stupid considering all the times this has come up. But of course Google is wholesome and had no idea the data was being collected and stored, yeah right.
non-biased17th Aug 2010
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