정보기술의 발달과 개인정보권의 보호

Abstract

In the age of ongoing information society, the privacy issue is one of the most controversial subjects, especially in Korea. The reason why Korea is one of the leading nations in e-government, the process of governance in which all administrative information, including personal information, is digitized and processed through network systems. In Korea, we came to know the consensus of our society to legislate an act on the protection of personal information after the NEIS(national education information system) issue in 2003. As a result of the efforts to legislate new act on the issues for the past three years, there are three bills were introduced to the National Assembly(Congress of Korea). It is expected that the alternative bill would be enacted in the early of 2006. The new act would not only provide the necessary systemic structure for the protection of personal information by providing clear definition of what personal information is as well as establishing a system for classification of personal information but also establish an independent supervisory commission with the expertise and authority to investigate, supervise, and provide judicial support under the Office of the Prime Minister. In this situation that the opposite opinion is raised against the use of personal information by some NGOs, we have to build a new trust system which is proper to the advanced information society by enacting the act of personal information protection.