디지털 기술의 발달과 프라이버시권 保護에 대한 硏究

Privacy Protection Act is now under discussion in the National Assembly as a bill. This type of generalized protection act is very essential in the age of digitalized personal data for the prevention of abuse and misuse of personal data. As the technology developed in a very rapid way, new problems we have never thought of in the previous time is now popping up day by day and the risks of infringing personal data by using newly developed techonologies. On the other hand, another new technology often times helps to prevent or solve new problems caused by the newly advansed technololgies. In this regards, protection of personal data also can be considered in the same context. In the newly enacted Privacy Protection Act, privacy right has to be promoted as a part of human integrity and the personal data has to be controlled by the person at stake with notice, infomed consent and his personal responsibility. Most of all, new potential big brother, private companies has to be under strict scrutiny of the person in the course of their collecting, processing, storing and disseminating the personal data. International harmonization of the personal data protection and privacy also has to play important role in shaping our Privacy protection system. What’s more, self-regulation of the parties will become more significant factor enhancing the status of the protection of the personal data. However, to keep the technology being progressed and developed, both self‐regulation and advancement of the privacy protection technology has be made without any governmental direction which make the parties be limited to the selection of the government. For this purpose, technology neutrality must be abided by in this Privacy context as well.