Members of a civic group who filed a lawsuit against Google for’disclosure of personal information to a third party’ said, “Google is consistently complaining about it.
Members of six civic groups, including the Citizens’ Federation for Economic Justice Practices (Gyeongsilryeon) and Amnesty International’s Korea Branch, who filed a lawsuit on the 2nd, held a press conference in the morning at the Gyeongsilryeon office in Jongno-gu, Seoul, and made this announcement.
They argued, “Even though Google Korea has stated that it has a personal information team in its privacy policy, it is showing a high pressure to the courts, saying that there is no personal information team in Google Korea in the process of defense.”
Lawyer Yang Hong-seok, an attorney at litigation, said, “It is difficult to understand in common sense that there is no organization chart in a company with more than 200 employees. Is Google Korea a place that operates as a point organization?”
In addition, Yang said, “What is the reason why there are 100 engineers in Google Korea, which is in charge of only receiving orders for advertisements?” and “Just looking through the hiring announcements, it is revealed that team members in charge of engineers, legal affairs, public relations, and customer support are being selected.” He explained.
He added, “At the present time, the search service provider is reported to Google Korea.” Will” he pointed out.
Those who filed the lawsuit will file a complaint with the Korea Communications Commission next week about the omission of Google’s personal information handling and false reporting of additional communications business. [ 시사포커스 / 오현지 기자 ]