The business of collecting user data continues to be a very dangerous one, as news today tells of Google in hot water with South Korean police on the suspicion that it unlawfully collected users’ location data.
The controversy centers on AdMob, Google’s mobile advertising network, as one South Korean police official explained:
“We suspect AdMob collected personal location information without consent or approval from the Korean Communication Commission.”
This incident comes in the wake of two other prominent incidents regarding mishandled user data. Last month Apple came under fire after it was discovered that it was collecting user location data. Sony suffered an attack on its PlayStation Network resulting in the theft of confidential customer data. And there’s further news today that Sony Online Entertainment may have been hacked as well.
Google has grappled with user privacy concerns many times in the past, with services such as Street View (particularly in Germany), and during launch of Google Buzz last year.
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