Annual Report 2014 communication confirmation data in the Protection of Communications Secrets Act to enhance the requirements for providing said data to investigative agencies (Feb. 10); to reform the resident registration numbering system (May 26); to strengthen the restrictions of sharing personal information among financial holding companies and their affiliates (Apr. 28); and to make institutional improvements ensuring senior citizens’ accessibility to pertinent information (Dec. 19). In addition, it issued a statement on the need to strengthen protection of human rights relating to personal information in wake of the massive personal information leakage incident by credit card companies (Jan. 27). More importantly, the NHRCK enhanced publicity on the practice of violating workers’ human rights including issuing orders via SNS, by organizing a panel discussion on the current situation of workers’ rights violation by information devices. It also collected opinions from domestic and international experts on information-related human rights by participating in the 9th UN Internet Governance Forum and holding a panel discussion pertaining to possible institutional improvements in regards to the practice of investigative agencies’ collection of personal information. In addition, it translated the ICTs and Human Rights, the first report of its kind in the world, published in January 2013, into English and distributed said report to information experts in, and outside of, Korea and other NHRIs, thereby publicizing the remarkable activities of the NHRCK to the domestic and international community. 20 ▪▪▪ Part I. Introduction