SEOUL, Sept. 12 (Korea Bizwire) – A new enforcement decree will go into effect next week, permitting firms to collect personal information necessary for service provision without users’ consent, officials said Thursday. The Personal Information Protection Commission said a new enforcement decree on personal data protection will take effect starting Sunday. Currently, online businesses are [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — In a move to cope with the change in the technological environment brought on by the emergence of blockchain services, personal data that cannot be deleted permanently will be deemed as being destroyed if it is turned into unrestorable anonymous information, the state watchdog on personal information protection said [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — As the omnipresence of security cameras or closed-circuit television (CCTV) cameras is here to stay, the controversy over possible invasions of privacy is likely to linger. Taking into account such rising worries over privacy invasion associated with CCTV cameras, a personal rights protection authority in South Korea announced it [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — The state watchdog on personal information protection on Friday recommended the operator of Facebook to pay 300,000 won (US$256.70) in compensation to each of 181 users demanding damages for the provision of their personal information to third parties without consent. The recommendation to Meta Platforms, Inc. was made by [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — The government is stepping up to amend legislation to better protect people’s privacy as COVID-19 continues to speed up digitalization. The Personal Information Protection Commission, a South Korea’s data protection watchdog, said Tuesday that a new bill that amends the Personal Information Protection Act has passed the state council [...]
SEOUL, June 15 (Korea Bizwire) — With an increasing number of people selling used smartphones, experts warn of the risks of data being recovered from these phones. Some 9 million second-hand phones are estimated to be kept among South Korean households. And about 1.3 million used smartphone transactions for this year’s first quarter, which was [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — The government is looking to exclude mobile phone numbers from handwritten visitor registrations, introduced to track coronavirus cases among visitors to multiuse facilities, to prevent possible breaches of personal information, its top official in charge of personal information protection said. Yoon Jong-in, chairman of the Personal Information Protection Commission [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — Some types of thermal imaging cameras with facial recognition functions turned out to be collecting what some deem as excessive personal information automatically in the process of checking body temperatures. The Personal Information Protection Commission is set to launch an investigation over the functions of the face recognition thermal [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — The South Korean government on Friday announced additional measures to protect personal information, as the prolonged fight against the coronavirus pandemic has led to excessive data disclosures. The Personal Information Protection Commission (PIPC) released the measures to protect privacy amid the COVID-19 pandemic, aimed at minimizing harnessing private information. [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — A handful of foreign information technology (IT) companies have been identified as having been negligent in their duties of operating domestic representatives for personal information. The domestic representatives are supposed to act on their behalf to perform the duties of a person responsible for management of personal information. The [...]