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S. Korean police say Google collected private data illegally

Posted on January 6, 2011July 3, 2025 by Dissent

Google’s problems over Street View collecting personal data from unsecured wi-fi connections are apparently not over. John Ribeiro reports:

South Korea has concluded that Google illegally collected personal data while collecting information for its Street View map service, an official at the country’s National Police Agency (NPA) said Thursday.

The official, who declined to be named, said the agency is in the process of conducting interviews with Google executives, but would not comment on whether arrests could follow.

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