The government asked Google, which caused a disability for an hour last year, to be notified in Korean if another disability occurs in the future.
The Ministry of Science and Technology Information and Communication held a briefing today and announced that it applied Article 22-7 of the Telecommunications Business Act to secure service stability and improve user protection measures for Google.
The revised bill of the Telecommunications Business Act, also called the’Netflix Act’, was revised last year to make it mandatory for six value-added telecommunications providers, including Netflix and Google, which generate more than 1 million daily visitors and generate more than 1% of total domestic traffic It was first applied this time after.
Earlier, from 8:30 pm on December 14, last year, some Google services such as YouTube and Gmail were disrupted worldwide for about an hour.
The Ministry of Science and ICT explained that a failure occurred due to insufficient storage space of the’user authentication system’ that handles user login requests as a result of receiving related data from Google, and that the system was improved to Google.
When a similar problem occurs in the future, Google notified of the disability in English on Google Twitter, etc. at the time of the disability, but did not provide guidance in Korean, the disability-related facts were notified in Korean through Google Korea’s blog, Facebook, and Twitter. .
However, the Ministry of Science and ICT explains that it is difficult to compensate for damages directly related to the current disruption, as the standard for compensation for damages caused by obstacles under the current Telecommunications Business Act enforcement decree is more than 4 hours.
Hong Jin-bae, communication policy officer of the Ministry of Science and ICT, said, “These measures were prepared in consultation with Google, but if these measures are not implemented, corrective orders may be issued and fines may be imposed in accordance with the revised Telecommunications Business Act.” I plan to proceed accordingly.”