SEOUL, Oct. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — PayPal Holdings, Inc., the multinational operator of an online payment system, was ordered to pay over 900 million won (US$663,863) in fines Thursday for a personal data breach involving some 23,000 customers. The Personal Information Protection Commission decided to impose combined fines of 922 million won on the Singapore-based [...]
BUSAN, Jan. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — Drones are being abused to infringe upon the privacy of others. The Busan District Court Eastern Branch sentenced a 39-year-old man to eight months in prison last week for a sexual offense. The defendant was accused of flying a drone from an apartment in the southern port city of [...]
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 30 (Korea Bizwire) — The state human rights watchdog has ruled that ordering military service members to install map applications and turn on GPS functions at all times for quarantine purposes infringes upon their privacy and other fundamental rights. The National Human Rights Commission of Korea (NHRCK) announced Tuesday that requiring the use [...]
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, March 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Graduation albums containing personal names and photos are being exploited for criminal activities. In one case, a student’s parents ended up stalking a teacher after finding the teacher’s photo in the student’s graduation album. The albums were also used to voice phish old teachers by criminals pretending to be [...]
SEOUL, March 6 (Korea Bizwire) — The government asked the public Saturday to use their encrypted personal numbers, instead of phone numbers, to protect privacy when they have to write down entry logs at widely used places like restaurants and cafes as part of measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19. Last month, the government [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 18 (Korea Bizwire) – Starting Friday, the government will introduce a new privacy protection measure allowing the people to write down encrypted private numbers instead of their phone numbers when they visit widely-used places, like restaurants and cafes. The Personal Information Protection Commission (PIPC) announced Thursday that it will introduce an encrypted private [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — Several questions from the national census that runs from October 15 to November 18 are raising controversy over possible privacy infringement. Among the controversial questions are ones asking if ‘there are children who are dead among the children born’ and ‘when was the first marriage in case of being [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — Organizations using thermal imaging cameras to prevent the spread of COVID-19 are banned from storing face images under a new government rule to protect privacy, effective as of Thursday. The Personal Information Protection Commission has set the new regulation after its recent inspection found thermal scanners in some offices [...]