Both Argentina’s Comision Nacional de Defensa de la Competencia and the KoreaFairTradeCommission in SouthKorea have also opened an investigation into certain business practices," the company said in its filing.
This is the second raid in SouthKorea in less than six months; Google was also raided by police in August 2010 for illegally grabbing and storing data as part of Street View. The Korean FairTradeCommission (KFTC) raided Google's Seoul offices...
Google's competitors in SouthKorea have recently filed complaints with the South Korean FairTradeCommission, alleging anticompetitive practices. Now SouthKorea has targeted Google for allegedly collecting and storing data against local laws.
The owners of SouthKorea's largest search engines have filed complaints against Google with the country's FairTradeCommission, alleging that local phone carriers and manufacturers were banned from embedding their search applications on mobile...
The owners of SouthKorea's largest search engines have filed complaints against Google with the country's FairTradeCommission, alleging that local phone carriers and manufacturers were banned from embedding their search applications on mobile...