Korea as well as fifteen other countries, including the U.S., Canada, Germany, France, Britain, as well as Australia, withdraw keep been investigating whether Google broke their privacy laws inwards the procedure of making its “Street View” service.
Korea has boot the bucket the laid about to denote publicly that the California-based companionship gathered communication records, such equally email as well as minute messages, passwords as well as search histories.
The Cyber Terror Response Center, affiliated alongside the National Police Agency, said it broke codes of figurer difficult drives confiscated from Google’s Seoul piece of occupation end August as well as works life hundreds of thousands of e-mails, minute messages as well as other personal data.
“We unlocked 79 figurer difficult disks seized from Google Korea end summertime as well as discovered e-mails, minute messages as well as other individual information sent over Wi-Fi networks. We are at nowadays working on an additional 145 difficult drives, which were handed over to us later. These disks had previously been taken out of the country,” said Jung Suk-hwa, leader of the investigation squad at the Cyber Terror Response Center.
On Aug. 10, the law raided Google Korea’s piece of occupation inwards southern Seoul as well as seized figurer difficult drives as well as companionship documents from the belongings during a search that lasted half-dozen hours.
The search as well as seizure warrant was issued on suspicions that sensitive information may withdraw keep been illegally collected past times the Google’s Street View cars, breaking the nation’s privacy protection laws.
Google laid about deployed its vehicles on Seoul’s streets inwards Oct 2009, only the debut of the localized version of its online mapping service has been delayed indefinitely, alongside law investigating whether the companionship has broken local privacy laws.
Jung said investigators summoned well-nigh 10 officials from Google Korea as well as its U.S.A. headquarters, including Google Korea CEO Lee Won-jin, for questioning over the past times few months, adding they all stated that they were non aware of the allegations
“Google Korea officials exclusively said the Street View mapping projection was orchestrated past times the U.S.A. headquarters, tilt they were non involved inwards the scheme. Those summoned from the U.S.A. said they were non aware of the collection of personal data,” he said.
Jung as well as then said it volition parent one's heed what to create after the analysis of all figurer difficult drives is completed. When asked well-nigh whether the law volition inquire the prosecution to indict those working at the Google’s U.S.A. headquarters if they were works life to live responsible for the leakage of personal data, he declined to comment, citing a possible diplomatic problem.
In answer to the law announcement, Google Korea issued a brusk statement, maxim it has been fully cooperating alongside law enforcement authorities.
“We withdraw keep non seen the report, only equally nosotros withdraw keep said before, nosotros are profoundly lamentable for having mistakenly collected payload information from unencrypted networks. As shortly equally nosotros realized what had happened, nosotros stopped collecting all Wi-Fi information from our Street View cars as well as instantly informed the authorities,” a Google Korea spokeswoman said.
She said the companionship has been cooperating alongside the Korea Communications Commission as well as the police, as well as volition boot the bucket on to create so.
“Our ultimate objective remains to delete the information consistent alongside our legal obligations as well as inwards consultation alongside the appropriate authorities,” the spokeswoman said.
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