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Google under probe in S.Korea over data collection
Reuters |
Google’s Street View cars are well known for crisscrossing the globe and taking panoramic pictures of the city streets, which the company displays in its online Maps product. In May, Google revealed that the cars also accidentally collected computer users’ personal information transmitted over unsecured wireless networks due to an experimental piece of computer code mistakenly used by the car’s equipment. “(The police) have been investigating Google Korea LLC on suspicion of unauthorised collection and storage of data on unspecified Internet users from Wi-Fi networks,” the Korean National Police Agency said in a statement. The police inspected the Google Street view cars and asked questions of staffers at Google’s office during the unexpected visit. Security experts have said the data picked up by Google could include people’s email messages and passwords, although Google has said that the United Kingdom’s data protection authorities recently concluded that no “meaningful personal information” was collected by the cars.