National Human Rights Commission of Korea Annual Report 2015
The Policy Planning Group for the Human Right to Information consists of seven experts
Part II
O. Launching of the Policy Planning Group for the Human Right to Information
who identify and discuss issues related to the human right to information. The group came into
Special Expert Committee on the Human Right to Information and Forum on the Human Right
to Information in the past.
In 2015, the group held two meetings for topic presentations and discussions on issues
identified in actual cases, measures to address them, and responsive measures for the
Commission regarding improvements to be made in legislations that unnecessarily demand the
actual name of individuals. In addition, the group has been engaging itself in discussions on
timely and influential issues on the human right to information that have great impact on the
livelihood of citizens, such as operation of the Smart Security Officer (smartphone application)
and integration of the government intra-network.
P. Conference on changes in the ICT environment and the human right to
information
The Commission co-hosted a conference with the Korean Constitutional Law Association on
March 27th to discuss ways to ensure the individual right to information in the era of rapid ICT
technology development demonstrated by new technologies such as big data, the internet of
things, and cloud computing.
At the conference, we discussed:
1. the importance of the soft-law-oriented approach that may allow legislations on personal
information protection to reflect technological changes due to penetration of the internet of
things across the society;
2. limitations and potential problems in the concept of “de-identification”, which was newly
introduced to utilize big data;
3. measures to strengthen the tools for personal information protection in the cloud computing
environment pursuant to implementation of the “cloud computing act”.
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Major Activities of NHRCK
being in June, 2015, for regularized meetings and free discussion, succeeding the purpose of the