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”. Part II Major Activities of NHRCK | 63 Major Activities of NHRCK being in June, 2015, for regularized meetings and free discussion, succeeding the purpose of the