"To Catch Evidence of an Affair"... Wife Secretly Installs Location Tracking App on Husband's Phone

Court Sentences 6 Months Imprisonment and 1 Year Disqualification

The court sentenced a woman in her 50s to imprisonment for secretly collecting her spouse's location information and other data to obtain evidence of infidelity.

[Asia Economy Reporter Park Hyun-joo] A woman in her 50s who secretly installed a location tracking app on her spouse's mobile phone to obtain evidence of an affair was sentenced to imprisonment by the court.

On the 29th, the Criminal Division 1 of the Wonju Branch of Chuncheon District Court (Chief Judge Shin Gyo-sik) announced that A (54) was sentenced to six months in prison with a one-year probation for violating the Act on the Protection and Use of Location Information, among other charges.

A is accused of secretly installing a location tracking app on her husband B's mobile phone at their home in Hoengseong-gun, Gangwon Province, in October 2019 to collect location information. Additionally, in April of last year, she secretly recorded phone conversations between B and B's girlfriend using the phone's recording function to obtain evidence of B's affair.

The court stated, "The guilt of infringing on the victim's privacy and freedom by secretly collecting location information and recording phone calls without the husband's knowledge is not light," adding, "The sentence was determined considering that the location information and recordings were not leaked externally."

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