Google faces another privacy probe
South Korean cops raid offices looking for mobile advertising wrongness
Posted in Mobile, 3rd May 2011 09:13 GMT
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South Korean investigators raided Google's Seoul offices this morning as part of a probe into the search and advertising giant's privacy policies.
Police were looking for evidence of illegal data collection by AdMob – Google's mobile advertising service.
A South Korean police official told the BBC: "We suspect AdMob collected personal location information without consent or approval from the Korean Communication Commission."
Google is facing a plethora of investigations into privacy and data protection as well as wider anti-trust or monopoly probes.
It is also being sued in the US because some users of its Android mobile phones object to its location-tracking features.
If the feature is switched on, your phone will send Google MAC addresses, network strength and GPS co-ordinates for any Wi-Fi network it comes across as well as time and phone ID information. ®
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