SEOUL, July 4 (Korea Bizwire) — In the government’s pilot project to ensure the digital right to be forgotten, the highest proportion of individuals requesting data deletion were middle and high school students, South Korea’s data protection watchdog said Monday. According to data from the Personal Information Protection Commission, as of June 30, there were [...]
SEOUL, April 25 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea plans to introduce a new service that allows teenagers to delete or hide posts that they uploaded on the internet when they were younger, the data protection watchdog said Monday. The Personal Information Protection Commission announced it would begin a trial project to increase control over children’s [...]
CHUNCHEON, July 25 (Korea Bizwire) – Gangwon’s provincial government is turning the ‘right to be forgotten’ into business opportunities across its 18 cities and counties starting August. The right to be forgotten refers to the removal of any personal information posted online after a certain period of time. Netizens can now set the time when their [...]
SEOUL, June 21 (Korea Bizwire) – Product reviews on online shopping sites and Q&A comments on Naver can now be deleted as they fall under ‘right to be forgotten’ category. The guidelines for ‘right to be forgotten’ limitations distributed to Internet business entities have been updated, said an official from the Korea Communications Commission on Monday, [...]
SEOUL, May 26 (Korea Bizwire) – Almost everyone has a skeleton or two in their closet. But once this sensitive information is posted online, it becomes almost permanent. A new ‘Right to be Forgotten’ standard set by the Korea Communications Commission (KCC) will go into effect starting June. But many questions still remain as to [...]
SEOUL, Feb.22 (Korea Bizwire) – In the first half of the year, it is expected that individuals will be give the option to have unwanted internet information deleted upon request. The Korea Communications Commission (KCC) announced that it is preparing guidelines to provide the ‘right to be forgotten’. The ‘right to be forgotten’ is a [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Oct 22 (Korea Bizwire) – Lately a business of deleting online records of past is prospering as more people demand their right to be forgotten.* These service providers search and destroy private data spread on the Internet and help their clients set up “time bombs” on postings to self-detonate after a certain time [...]