Police Raid Google Headquarters in South Korea
Police Raid Google Headquarters in South Korea
Posted 08/11/2010 at 3:54am
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Google opened a can of worms when it fessed up to possessing payload data from open Wi-Fi networks in over 30 countries. Although it immediately approached regulators around the world with a proposal to quickly dispose of the data gathered by Street View cars, not all regulators were willing to allow the internet giant's request. Some of them have even launched criminal probes into the matter.
South Korean cops on Tuesday raided Google Korea's headquarters in Seoul as part of an ongoing probe to determine whether the company violated any laws in collecting personal Wi-Fi data. South Korean cops raided Google Korea's headquarters on Tuesday.
“We intend to find out what kinds of data they have collected and how much. We will try to retrieve all the original data illegally collected and stored through domestic Wi-Fi networks from the Google headquarters,” the Cyber Terror Response Center of the Korean National Police Agency said in a statement confirming the raid.
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Tekzel
August 11, 2010 at 10:08am
Wow, I am so over this whole story. They grabbed some data from a bunch of idiot's OPEN access points and people are boo-hooing all over the place. No, they shouldn't have done it. Whatever, tell them to delete it and get over it. If the dipshits hadn't left their access points wide freaking open they wouldn't have anything to cry about.
The lengths to which government organizations will go to justify their existence is amazing to me.
timekills
August 11, 2010 at 8:48am
Call me crazy, but I'm more concerned about the data being in the hands of S. Korea's (or any government's) hands than in Google's. I notice they will try to "retrieve ALL the original data" but it doesn't say what they will do either initially or long term with said data.
quickone
August 11, 2010 at 6:01am
Cyber Terror Response Center? They used a cyber TERROR team to raid Google? HA it must be pretty slow in S. Korea these days, you know with N. Korea being a model citizen in all, great use of resources
sniggler
August 11, 2010 at 9:09am
I wonder if they get all out of whack when someone cheats at Starcraft?
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