South Korea says Google must take responsibility for data leak exposing victims' details
- South Korea's Gender Equality Minister Won Min-kyong said on Friday that Google must take responsibility for a data leak.
- Personal details of digital sex crime victims were exposed via a research project linked to Google, later deleted.
- Google apologised and pledged not to share South Korea's deletion requests with outside parties going forward.
- South Korea also plans to let investigators lawfully hack illegal websites to remove sexually exploitative material.
Source: en.yna.co.kr
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