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 [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 4 (Korea Bizwire) – Silicon Valley is well known for fighting against government surveillance to protect its users. But what steps are Korean IT companies taking to safeguard their customers? Naver and Daum are Korea’s leading web portals, claiming approximately 75 percent and 15 percent the market, respectively, while Kakao is Korea’s dominant [...]
SEOUL, July 15 (Korea Bizwire) – A local court on Friday ordered three credit card companies hit by massive data leaks to pay fines for failing to fulfill their duties to protect customer information. In 2014, an employee at a local credit rating agency was found to have stolen card holders’ information, including bank account [...]
SEOUL, July 1 (Korea Bizwire) – The Korean government is allowing some personal information to be used without an individual’s consent in ICT fields including big data, IoT (Internet of Things), and fintech (financial technology), as long as the information does not reveal the person’s identity. The Ministry of the Interior (MOI) announced on Thursday, June 30, [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 19 (Korea Bizwire) – A South Korean activist group said Friday U.S.-based social network operator Facebook Inc.’s compliance with investigation warrants pose a threat to local users’ privacy, demanding that the firm follow Apple Inc.’s privacy policy. Police arrested a 26-year-old student, known only by his last name Kim, earlier this week on [...]
SEOUL, Jan.13 (Korea Bizwire) – The Ministry of Government Administration and Home Affairs announced that it will make efforts to lower the possibility of privacy invasions. Whether we like it or not, what we do can be recorded on the black boxes of the many cars omnipresent on Korea’s busy streets. Sometimes, videos we did [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 8 (Korea Bizwire) – Kakao, who earlier refused an interception warrant from an investigative agency, changed its stance after a year, and has decided to cooperate. Although concerns over the occurrence of cyber asylum are stirring, officials are predicting that there won’t be a huge drop in the number of users. Kakao insists [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 13 (Yonhap) – South Korea’s top portal operator Naver Corp. said Monday it will seek to add more transparency to its management of privacy by having exclusive lawyers review and possibly reject warrants, amid rising concerns over the government’s censorship online. “Starting in April, Naver will adopt a new system in which lawyers [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Telecom announced that it would launch an application to safeguard customers’ personal information on their smartphones, reflecting growing concerns about privacy and according measures the wireless industry rushes to adopt these days. SKT’s “Security Box” is aimed at protecting confidential information against possible leaks as users increasingly tend [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Sep 11 (Korea Bizwire) – There is a dictum in the information technology industry that digital data never die once created. This is true because data, no matter how many times you press the “delete” button in your file explorer screen and send the file to the trash can, reside somewhere in your computer. [...]