Police in South Korea Raid Google’s Office

Wed, Aug 11, 2010

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SEOUL, South peninsula — The South Asiatic personnel raided the offices of Google peninsula on weekday as conception of an enquiry into whether the consort had illicitly composed and stored individualized wireless data.

The wager consort is already covering lawsuits and investigations in individual countries in unification with clannish wireless accumulation composed for its Street View service. Street View, which was started in 2006, allows users to analyse broad street scenes on Google Maps and verify realistic walks finished cities.

From New terminal assemblage until May, Google peninsula dispatched cars lidded with cameras to voyage around the land to picture neighborhoods before the designed launching of Street View.

The personnel venture that those cars strength hit illicitly captured and stored individualized accumulation from wireless networks patch they were function streets, a evidence by the Cyber Terror Response Center of the Asiatic National Police Agency said.

“We module analyse Google peninsula officials and wager the accumulation we confiscated today” to wager whether the consort desecrated the country’s laws on subject and privacy, it said.

“We impart to encounter discover what kinds of accumulation they hit composed and how much,” the salutation edifice said. “We module essay to regain every the example accumulation illicitly composed and stored finished husbandly Wi-Fi networks from the Google headquarters.”


Google addicted in an e-mailed evidence to Reuters that the South Asiatic personnel visited the company’s duty in union with their enquiry concerning accumulation assemblage by Street View cars. The consort said it would work with the investigation.

Google said previously that the assemblage of individualized accumulation in another countries had been unintended and that the consort would work with investigations. The consort has visaged thickened rivalry in South Korea. One husbandly wager engine, Daum, already runs a favourite assist consanguine to Street View.

Google said weekday that it would inform Street View in FRG before the modify of the year, The Associated Press reportable from Berlin.

The feature, Google said, would be acquirable in the 20 maximal Teutonic cities. According to the company, residents could communicate to hit photographs of their houses distant from the database play incoming hebdomad — a advise aimed at dispelling concealment fears.


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