Introduction National Human Rights Commission of Korea Annual Report 2016 Principles on Business and Human Rights and the achievements thereof, as well as its work to promote respect for human rights across society, the United Nations invited the Commission's Chairperson to be a high-level panel at the 2016 UN Forum on Business and Human Rights for the second time since 2015. Safeguarding privacy and human rights in a highly informatized society The Commission actively sought legal and institutional improvements to safeguard privacy and human rights. It made recommendations to protect personal information in hiring practices, expressed its opinion regarding the proposed amendment to the Act on the Use and Protection of Credit Information, reviewed policies for institutional improvement to protect workers’personal information from being electronically monitored by the management, and reviewed an opinion regarding a constitutional petition about provision of communication data. The Commission’s efforts to find alternative ways of protecting privacy and human rights also include discussions to fundamentally revamp the nation’s resident registration number system, issuance of a Chairperson’s statement regarding the amendment to the Resident Registration Act, and participation in a meeting of the United Nations Internet Governance Forum (multistakeholder forum for policy dialogue on issues of Internet governance). Identifying new human rights agenda The rapidly expanding use of biometric information such as fingerprint, face, and iris signatures, in mobile-based financial transactions, electronic payments, and health management has raised the possibility that people’s rights and interests can be violated through commerciallydriven bio information leakage, illegal use, monitoring, and abuse. The Commission conducted a survey of biometric information collection and use in an effort to address this new human rights issue emerging as a result of advancement in science and technology. Increasing engagement and cooperation with domestic and international human rights organizations and groups The Commission built a network with human rights organizations and stepped up its exchanges and cooperation with them, including visits to and meetings with various related 16