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Google, Facebook, Naver and Kakao face terms-of-service demands from South Korean regulator

By Choi Hyung-jo and Wooyoung Lee ( March 14, 2019, 05:54 GMT | Insight) -- Google and Facebook, alongside South Korean platform heavyweights Naver and Kakao, have received demands from the country's competition regulator to change certain terms of service that it deems to be illegal. MLex was told that the Korea Fair Trade Commission wanted Google and Facebook to revise certain terms of service globally in line with its demands, as it had asked Airbnb to do before being rebuffed by prosecutors last month.Google and Facebook, alongside South Korean platform heavyweights Naver and Kakao, have received demands from the country's competition regulator to change certain terms of service that it deems to be illegal. ...

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