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Human Rights Watchdog Warns Universities, Scholarship Foundations Over Intrusive Information Collection

Human Rights Watchdog Warns Universities, Scholarship Foundations Over Intrusive Information Collection

SEOUL, Dec. 18 (Korea Bizwire) – A human rights watchdog in South Korea issued a warning to universities and scholarship foundations over the collection of information regarding recipients’ parents. The National Human Rights Commission of Korea (NHRCK) told the Ministry of Education and 17 local education authorities that asking about recipients’ parents during the scholarship application [...]

Korean Local Governments Say, “Protect Your Personal Information with an App”

Korean Local Governments Say, “Protect Your Personal Information with an App”

SEOUL, Aug. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Local governments of Korea are enthusiastically advising their citizens to use a government-developed privacy information protection application amid new provisions beginning to be enforced in an effort to prevent increasing cases of personal information breaches. On August 7, the “Personal Information Protection Act” started to take effect in earnest after a [...]