Could goole renaming Dokdo to liaccourt rocks be retaliation?

http://koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/tech/2012/10/133_123134.html

"A respected global privacy expert said Thursday that U.S.-based search giant Google is the ``No. 1’’ global privacy problem because Google’s culture is demonstrably hostile to privacy.

At a forum organized by The Korean Council on the Protection of Personal Information (KCPPI) held at a Seoul hotel, Scott Cleland, the author of ``Search & Destroy: Why You Can’t Trust Google Inc.,’’ strongly criticized the U.S. tech giant for its forced integrated privacy policy, saying that the policy pushes the world towards lowest common denominator privacy standards.

``The decisions by the Fair Trade Commission and Department of Justice (USDOJ) have amounted to a unilateral disarmament of law enforcement power in an entire area of anti-trust oversight ― privacy ― perversely encouraging an anything-goes-environment and systemic abuse,’’ Cleland slammed.

His remarks have been taken seriously in South Korea in the light of recent developments on the same subject matter coming out of Brussels. The European Union says a recent change in Google’s privacy policy, allowing it to combine and share data collected from all of its different services, breaches European privacy law."

More at the url...

Also, see:

http://koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2012/10/117_123060.html

And

http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/opinon/2012/10/137_123138.html

http://english.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2012/10/26/2012102601350.html

So, while the Diet or parliament did not hammer google, it appears the Shimane did. Google mimced words, it seems...

Talk about digital rights and digital wrongs...

"Google’s culture is demonstrably hostile to privacy."

Perhaps, but the same could be said for any giant internet based company -Facebook, Microsoft, Apple, etc.

Google has always had an issue with it's "privacy policy". I don't see that stopping any time soon, either..