Google broke South Korean privacy law when its Street View cars collected emails and other personal information from the country’s homes and businesses, the country’s police authority said today.Police official Jung Suk-hwa said the technology giant breached South Korean telecommunication laws with its illegal data capture, which the company admitted to in May 2010.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/jan/06/google-streetview-south-koreaAlso see:S. Korean police say Google collected private data illegally [IDG]
South Korea has concluded that Google illegally collected personal data while collecting information for its Street View map service, an official at the country’s National Police Agency (NPA) said on Thursday.The official, who declined to be named, said the agency is in the process of conducting interviews with Google executives, but would not comment on whether arrests could follow.
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/010611-s-korean-police-say-google.html
http://www.pcworld.com/article/215768/.html
Google Street View ‘broke South Korea privacy law’
Google broke South Korean privacy law when its Street View cars collected emails and other personal information from the country’s homes and businesses, the country’s police authority said today.