Comparison study of personal information protection laws in South Korea

Cho Yee Nam, Kyungho Lee

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    Abstract

    For the recent personal information leaks, it is urgent that the protection provisions for personal information and the countermeasures for personal information leakages be established. As the importance of personal information security grows, the government has enacted related laws and regulations and published the guidelines for managing personal information. However, unlike the government's goals and wishes, each laws and regulations only intensify confusion. The structural defects are found in the privacy laws by the comparative analysis of related laws and regulations. This paper presents the integrated suggestions for the distributed laws and regulations of personal information in Korea. For the laws and regulations causing confusion, integrated guideline is suggested according to the analysis of Sarbanes-Oxley Act in U.S.

    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)661-670
    Number of pages10
    JournalContemporary Engineering Sciences
    Volume7
    Issue number13-16
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2014

    Keywords

    • Information security
    • Personal information
    • Personal information protection

    ASJC Scopus subject areas

    • General Materials Science
    • Social Sciences (miscellaneous)
    • General Engineering
    • Fluid Flow and Transfer Processes
    • Computer Networks and Communications
    • Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis

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