South Korean police visited Google office with check

Yesterday, it became known that South Korean police visited the Google office in Seoul in order to verify information about the corporation illegally collecting private data from customers and users. Suspicion fell on the division of Google, which is responsible for the operation of the mobile advertising platform AdMob. Inspectors, by the way, did not leaf through the documents, but arranged a check of the information stored on the computers of the employees. Unfortunately, there is no more or less detailed information about the verification process, but, as we see, South Korean law enforcement officers did not take out all the corporation’s equipment in order to “inspect in a convenient place at a convenient time in their own office,” as is the practice in some countries, but checked everything is in place.

The extent of the audit also remains unknown, since neither the South Korean police nor the corporation representatives give any comments on the inspection progress and its results. It is only known that the management of the AdMob division in South Korea claims that the company did not commit anything illegal.

In January of this year, South Korean police already checked information on the illegal collection of personal data in the Street View project. The check ended for Google more or less smoothly in all countries that decided to conduct their own investigation of this situation. Now, Google has a new series of tests.

By the way, not only Google was subjected to inspections by law enforcement agencies of this country - Apple also underwent inspections after it became known that the iPhone and iPad are allegedly tracking their users. Representatives of the South Korean authorities immediately became interested in such information, and decided to check everything on their own.

Via Yahoo