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Google Korea Asks For ID

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In America, Google’s SafeSearch can be disabled with two simple clicks of the mouse.  Not so in Korea - the search engine giant will, starting in August, require that users enter their name and a national resident registration number in order to conduct “searches of an adult nature.”

This information “will be checked against a database to verify the user - or at least the person whose data has been entered - is old enough,” reports Martyn Williams of the

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