Lee Ju-hee of the Democratic Party of Korea pointed out that "the leaked information is still searchable" regarding an incident in which Google Korea unlawfully leaked the personal information of victims who reported the distribution of sexual exploitation materials.
At the National Audit of the Science, Technology, Information and Communications Committee held at the National Assembly in Yeouido, Seoul, on the 22nd, Lee (Rep.) called Yoon Gu, President of Google Korea, as a witness and stated this.
Lee (Rep.) said, "Yoon (President) testified that they blocked the leaked information within 24 hours of receiving it and deleted all of it from the servers within 48 hours when they appeared at this venue (the National Audit site) previously," adding, "Google received a report about the (personal information leak) on August 25 and obtained the URL (internet address) on the 27th of the same month. At the latest, the (materials) should have been deleted by August 29."
Lee (Rep.) stated that "the completion time for deletion mentioned to Koo Geul-i (Rep.)'s office was September 20, which is clearly different from the materials and (Yoon (President)'s testimony)," pointing out, "The victim who contacted us this time found that three items are still searchable on the relevant site as of September 16. They made statements at the National Audit venue that differ from the facts."
Lee (Rep.) criticized, saying, "Article 34 of the Personal Information Protection Act stipulates that if a (personal information) leak is known, the data subject must be notified without delay," adding, "Google has already admitted that the leakage of victims' information had been occurring since 2020, but they likely did not control it in 2020. It is even questionable whether Google has a system to prevent personal information leaks."
Lee (Rep.) also pointed out to Heo Wook, Vice President of Meta Korea, asking, "Are you aware of the situation where historical distortion, discrimination, and hate speech are rampant on Instagram?" and stating, "According to Meta's rules, content that attacks people based on their country of origin, religion, disability, sexual orientation, etc., is prohibited under the hate conduct policy and is removed from all users."
Vice President Heo explained, saying, "We are making tremendous efforts to remove content that violates the rules, but we failed to delete some of it in time."
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