미국 개인정보보호 관련 기관의 역할과 권한에 대한 비판적 고찰

In the United Stated of America, there is no completed system of personal information protection until now. Unlike many other countries in the world, there is no organization to supervise and control the information processing of nation in the USA. Actually responsibility to supervise and guarantee many acts related to personal information is very extensively dispersed. Therefore the chief executives of each government agency are responsible for the privacy law enforcement in public sector. However Office of Management and Budget under the authority of the president handles partially the supervision for the implementation of privacy acts. Next, in private sector, Federal Trade Commission protects the personal information of consumer from dangerous processing of personal information for fair competition based on executive authority. But Office of Management and Budget is generally an organization for the policy making of fiscal operation of nation like the compilation of a budget, operating budget, etc. Office of Management and Budget has only a limited role in the protection of privacy on the level for budgetary control. And the Federal Trade Commission is acting as an independent agency for ensuring free and fair trade. Then the role of FTC is demonstrated that number on goal is not the protection of privacy rather than the promotion trade and transactions. It is eventually proved that such a role of FTC as mentioned above is not suitable than independent agencies have executive power.