잊혀질 권리의 국내 적용과 법제화의 한계

There are various opinions to the concept and scope of the right to be forgotten. However, it is obvious that development of Internet and ICT caused by inconvenience are the origin of this discussion. Individuals' wishes for uncomfortable information to be deleted, as well as illegal information, appeared as political and social slogans. The specific appearance of the right to be forgotten is the Google decision of ECJ. The ruling cleary showed the right to be forgotten signified the deletion of the rights of personal information on the Internet search engines. However, the careful approach is necessary to directly connect the discussion of Google judgments and right to be forgotten to the legal legislation. The system to protect the rights related to the personal information has highly developed in South Korea then in EU. There are privacy Acts, information communication network Act, media law, Internet deliberation system by administrative agencies. These various institutions are organized lengthwise and breadthwise in order to guarantee so-called right to be forgotten. The discussion on the right to be forgotten are necessary. However, it dose not lead to the need for legislation. In order to develop the legislative debate, reviewing whetherwhat is legally insufficient in our systems should be preceded. Accordingly, this legislation will be required to complement the blank. At that point, the recent discussion is premature. So, the careful approach is required to avoid confusion with existing legislation.