South Korea: Google violates privacy laws

Korea Herald
Jan. 07, 2011

...Do you see how this works here?

The SK government can spy on their citizens carte blanche, they force everyone to use National ID cards to do almost everything, just to play games in a PC bang you need to log in with your National ID card, yet here they hunt down Google for supposedly violating people's privacy.

What's Google going to do with the info? Use it to sell people things they already want to buy? Oh, the horror!

The government on the other hand actively uses the information it gathers on it's citizens *against* them, spying on them like a Stasi police force in order to protect the state's power monopoly. - Chris, InfoLibGoogle’s high-flying Street View service is in violation of Internet privacy laws here, police said Thursday.

According to the Cyber Terror Response Center, the National Police Agency’s Internet crime unit, the conglomerate’s Street View mapping service had gathered sensitive private information from unencrypted wireless networks during the filming process.

“We succeeded in breaking the encryption behind the hard drives, and confirmed that it contained personal e-mails and text messages of people using the Wi-Fi networks,” said a police official.

This puts the Internet global conglomerate in violation of the country’s law on protection of telecommunications privacy.

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