‘잰걸음으로 나선’ 개인정보 보호법을 보완하는 논의 - 개인정보 보호법 개정 논의 및 관련법률 검토

The legislation of the Personal Information Protection Act(hereinafter 'PIPA') streamlined various Acts related personal information, and made the privacy right for the information subject reinforce. Albeit better than before, there are some articles to provide reasonable adjustment to make them clear what is to be achieved; firstly, the correction of legal terminologies and legal sentences for getting the legislative purposes of this PIPA, secondly, the harmonization between the PIPA and the other related Acts, based on PIPA which is the center for the protection of personal information, thirdly, the legislative consideration of the emerging 'right to be forgotten'. The 'right to be forgotten' was proposed by European Commission to make twenty seven EU member countries adopt their own regular right with respect to the personal date. This newly emerging right aims at the prevention of illegal collection and use of the scattered personal information on Social Networking Service(SNS), and on searching websites.