services. The Commission also reviewed certain practices of businesses to extract excessive personal information and called for a guideline to protect personal information of service users. Faced with an issue of collecting fingerprint information as a part of Smart School Fingerprint Recognition System implemented for school attendance data processing, the Commission sided against the practice saying that benefits did not outweigh possible infringement on right to privacy and right to self-determination of personal information. The Commission also determined that there was no specific system to guarantee right to personal information in light of managing the significant amount of personal information amassed by the government, and investigated current practices and provided grounds for human rights-friendly data management for the government. It also actively discussed and shared privacy issues in a series of open forum on private data profiling, right to enjoy information culture and intellectual property right, participation in SNS and establishment of democratic governance, and on-field privacy education across the country. B. Advancing the Rights of the Child and the Elderly The Commission came up with performance objectives of improving human rights of students, low-income children and youth, sports athletes, and the elderly, under the strategic goal of ‘advancing the rights of child and senior citizen’ to address human rights issues of children, youth and elderly people–the vulnerable group in the competitive society. For promotion of students’ rights, the Commission conducted monitoring of curriculum and textbooks and recommended to revise or improve cases described in textbook which are not in line with the universal value or reflect bias or stereotype, and to comply with human rights-friendly textbook writing standards; and reviewed the partial amendment to the Enforcement Decree of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act and expressed its opinions on punishment policy of schools including indirect punishment Introduction 23