Google Korea Investigating Unauthorized Collection Personal Data Message

On August 10, Google searches and seizures of Korea is facing Cyber Terror Response Center of Korean National Police Agency (KNPA), charges resulting from violations of the Telecommunications Act Protection of Korea.

According KNPA, Google Korea is under investigation for the cost of collecting and storing large amounts of personal information to unidentified messages to Internet users prepare for the launch of its Internet service, known as the Street View map. Str. “View map visual information is created by recording 360-degree view with a special camera attached to a vehicle that drove through the streets, collecting images of specific locations. It is to prepare the official launch of services by the end of last year.

Police said that Google has opened the information comes from the access point (AP), installed in wireless networks is building, but also a doubt for collecting and storing personal information for communications details. Suk-Jung Hua Cyber Terror Response Center of the comment, “because we are still investigating, the center can not talk about specifics of the problem,” and that “the confiscation of the data analysis is not ready yet, but Once you confirm if that Google has collected unauthorized information will continue to collect original data.

The investigation began in May this year when Google announced via its official blog that, while they gathered information on 30 countries, but data collected from the match. [via aving]

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