Google’s office in Korea was recently raided by the South Korean Police. Google was charged of illegally gathering of data on Internet users. Google was already charged of the same offense in the US Court.
We all know that South Korea has the fastest broadband connection, together with Japan going head to head. In an Internet culture, Online data and privacy is the most important aspect in surfing the Internet. So the fact that Google might be illegally retrieving the people’s online data is certainly not going to make Korean’s Security happy.
The Korean National Police Agency is investigating Google on suspicion of unauthorized collection and storage of data on unspecified Internet users from wifi networks. In their defense, Google has told to local television channel MBC that it was caused due to a mistake during the data collection and is not intentionally done..
“Some data was collected unintentionally while we were operating a Street View vehicle. We have discussed this matter with the government and we will closely cooperate with the investigating authorities.”
Here is the video report of the recent raid in Google’s office in Korea.
