[BLOG] Four years later, Korea finally remembers to fine Google's Street View slurping

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In 2010, South Korea's communications regulator became another on a list of worldwide regulators to fine Google for sucking up personal data during a Street View mapping project, which also recorded data about unprotected WiFi networks - the same stuff the company has received fines for from Germany and France. Four years later, South Korea has finally started to join in with holding Google to account. The regulator has ordered Google to delete all collected private data and to keep the public updated as this deletion progresses; as well as pay a fine worth the equivalent of US$196,000 to South Korea. Given the lateness and small size of the fine, forgive me if I don't see Google getting out of bed over this, either.