Raid on Google's S.Korea office related to suspected illegal collection of private information -Yonhap http://twitter.com/REUTERSFLASH/status/20779464689 |
Police confiscated files, hard drives and documents. |
Remember "Korean Officials Angered By Google’s Decision To Bypass Law" in April 2009?
<<Google’s decision to bypass a new South Korean law by shutting off comments and video uploads on its YouTube Korea site appears to have seriously irked the Korean government. Korean paper Hankyoreh reports that the Korean government is considering some sort of legal action against Google. The paper also says that a lawmaker told a National Assembly committee last week that Google was “speaking as though Korea is (a) backwards internet nation that is intensifying its internet censorship.”>> http://paidcontent.org/article/419-korea-upset-over-google-action/ |