Personal Information Protection Commission (South Korea)

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Not to be confused with Personal Information Protection Commission (Japan).
Personal Information
Protection Commission
개인정보보호위원회
個人情報保護委員會
Gaein Jeongbo Boho Wiwonhoe
Independent agency executive
Key document
Websitewww.pipc.go.kr

The Personal Information Protection Commission is

Government Complex Seoul. The Commission is constituted with 9 commissioners and one of them is the Chairperson, who is appointed by the President of South Korea
.

History

The PIPA of South Korea was first enacted in year 2011 to establish general and comprehensive basis for regulation on

data protection, overcoming formerly diffused and conflicting regulations around each type of data. The Act also had a goal to form PIPC as integrated apex authority governing over all data protection issues in South Korea. However, each of laws governing specified types of data continued to exist due to several legal issues, so PIPC was launched in 2011 with rather limited power to govern data protection issues. This limited position is reflected in organizational status of PIPC in 2011, as it was not an independent agency, yet rather an advisory panel for Ministry of the Interior and Safety which was in charge of enforcing PIPA at that time.[3]

Later in year 2020, the PIPA was amended to give complete power to PIPC as

Facebook $6.1 million in November 2020 for sharing user's personal data without consent.[5] Also in September 2022, the PIPC fined Google $50 million and Meta Platforms $22 million for violating South Korean privacy regulations.[6]

Organization

Further information: Chairperson of the Personal Information Protection Commission (South Korea)

After amendement of the PIPA in 2020, the PIPC is now a 'central administrative agency (

opposition parties.[2]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b 홍, 인택 (2022-09-13). "국가교육위 예산, 다른 위원회 5분의 1도 안 돼...유명무실 우려". Hankook Ilbo (in Korean). Retrieved 2022-09-14.
  2. ^ a b c "Personal Information Protection Act". Korea Legislation Research Institute. Retrieved 2022-09-02.
  3. doi:10.1093/idpl/ipx004
    . Retrieved 2022-09-02.
  4. doi:10.1093/idpl/ipaa015
    . Retrieved 2022-09-02.
  5. ^ Lee, Joyce (2020-11-25). "South Korean watchdog fines Facebook $6.1 million for sharing user info without consent". Reuters. Retrieved 2022-09-01.
  6. ^ Choi, Soo-hyang; Lee, Joyce (2022-09-16). "S.Korea fines Google, Meta billions of won for privacy violations". Reuters. Retrieved 2022-09-30.
  7. ^ 권, 수현 (2020-08-04). "'개인정보보호 콘트롤타워' 개인정보보호위 내일 공식 출범". Yonhap News Agency (in Korean). Retrieved 2022-09-01.

External links

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