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KR: Kakao was snooping on websites shared in chats

Posted on June 4, 2016 by pogowasright.org

Jin Eun-Soo reports:

KakaoTalk has come under fire for mishandling private information obtained from its 40 million users’ chat rooms.

With the excuse of enhancing search results of Daum, the search engine acquired by Kakao last year, the nation’s No. 1 mobile messenger has been disclosing website addresses shared in chat rooms of users on Daum search result pages since January.

Read more on Korea JoongAng Daily.

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