웹사이트에서 개인정보침해와 구제 -미국ㆍ독일ㆍ일본의 법제를 중심으로-

Abstract

As information technology has developed rapidly, the effectiveness and convenience of the works has been increased through an E-commerce and On-line service in public and private part. On the contrary, the users of the internet service are afraid of the infringement of individual rights and obligation, since there has been increased number of problems of the misuse or abuse of personal information related to individual personality. Because the personal information has been handled so rapidly through the incredible speed in interne and has been accessed to internet in a long distance. The misuse or abuse of personal information has been brought into unrecoverable damage to its user's reputation. In reality, in the world of internet, the personal information that one doesn't want to let know to the general public has been distributed unlawful, and flowed out massively. Thus many nations have focused on how to use or control personal information and how much discretion should they allow the authority to handle personal information. In this paper, the principal on the protection of information and remedy that has been regulated in the special code and the general principal on the protection of information and remedy in comparative to the legislation in USA, Germany and Japan were researched.