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Google's data collection was raided
2011-05-05
South Korean police Tues. raided Google's local office to analyze whether the worldwide search company used its mobile telephone advertising platform to unlawfully collect personal information. Investigators were sent to Google's Seoul office to secure hard drives and other PC info related to its "AdMob" platform, a police cyber crime unit spokesman told AFP. "The raid followed claims that Google's mobile ad agency, AdMob, had unlawfully picked up personal data," he claimed. Google officers were not available for comment. In Jan police probed Google for collecting private information while manufacturing its Street View mapping service, which permits users to see breathtaking street scenes on the Google Maps site. Google admitted its Street View vehicles, which have been cruising and taking footage of towns in over thirty nations, accidentally gathered slivers of personal info from unsecured WiFi systems. However it asserted it did not do anything against the law in South Korea and state prosecutors have not begun to press charges. The latest raid came a week after South Korea's telecoms regulator launched an investigation into Apple to determine if the US giant's collection of location info from its iPhone and iPad users violates privacy rules.
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