{"id":91882,"date":"2011-05-03T11:26:58","date_gmt":"2011-05-03T06:26:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=91882"},"modified":"2011-05-03T11:26:58","modified_gmt":"2011-05-03T06:26:58","slug":"police-raid-googles-korea-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2011\/05\/03\/police-raid-googles-korea-office.html","title":{"rendered":"Police Raid Google&#8217;s Korea Office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>South Korean police raided Google&#8217;s Seoul office on Tuesday, on suspicion the internet search giant illegally collected data from users, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/13263639\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>BBC reports<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators suspect Google&#8217;s mobile advertising agency, AdMob, may have collected information about users&#8217; location without proper consent.<\/p>\n<p>The probe highlights growing worries about the security of personal information gathered online or electronically, especially as mobile devices become more popular.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We suspect AdMob collected personal location information without consent or approval from the Korean Communication Commission,&#8221; a South Korean police official said.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation in South Korea follows news reports that US regulators are considering their own broad probe into Google&#8217;s activities.<\/p>\n<p>Google purchased California-based AdMob in 2009, in order to tap the growing business of targeting advertising to users on the go.<\/p>\n<p>According to analysts, users of the iPhone and Android smartphones browse the internet more often than anyone else.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Korean police raided Google&#8217;s Seoul office on Tuesday, on suspicion the internet search giant illegally collected &#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":91887,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[10818,25887,25886,13923],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91882"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91882\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}