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 [...]
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, March 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Coronavirus patients can now request corrective measures whenever they feel their rights and privacy have been violated after their travel logs go public. The Ministry of Health and Welfare announced Tuesday that new legislation on epidemics management that includes the aforementioned policy went into effect early this month. The [...]
SEOUL, March 14 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea set new guidelines advising local governments to hold back unnecessary private information of coronavirus patients on Saturday. Regional governments across South Korea have alerted their residents against coronavirus infection risks, releasing detailed routes and destinations used by coronavirus patients within their jurisdiction. During the process, the private [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — The South Korean Constitutional Court has ruled that current legislation banning businesses from making inquiries into one’s privacy is not unconstitutional. This includes the ban on using the term “detective” by private investigators in their business dealings. In a previous lawsuit, a former police officer claimed that the ban [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 27 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean prosecutors conducted 533 individual cases of telecommunications-related monitoring through August from 2012, a lawmaker said Tuesday, urging the government to reorganize its privacy-related policies that can better protect the rights of its people. Around 63 percent of the monitoring was made on request by South Korea’s intelligence [...]