주민등록번호의 입법목적 정당화에 관한 법제연구

As PDPA(Personal Data Protection Act) which regulates on principle of collecting and utilizing resident registration number for the purpose of protecting information privacy effectively and systematically is legislated, resident registration number should be handled only with restricted cause of data subjects' consent or the code aim of law and ordinance and. Generally speaking, resident registration number is unique, invariable and exclusive as inherent identification information but used as conventional wide-use key for convenience of personal certification irrespective of the public and private sector in Korea. 52) Such is not in accordance with justness and legitimacy of the statute purpose RRA(Resident Registration Act). Therefore, it is important to reset the reiterated qualification for dealing with resident registration number such as data subjects' consent under clear and specific legal grounds and stipulate the circumstances where public agencies can not perform competent duties prescribed in other Acts at enforcement decree of PDPA on behalf of information privacy guarantee. Thus, the legislative system on collection and use of resident registration number should be approached cautiously from the viewpoint of legal stability on the premise that administrative information co-using ruled by EGA(Electronic Government Act) must be reformed in consideration of tuning legal emotion and the interface between beforehand prevention and post-factum remedies of infringement of information privacy by organic mediation of information-related legislations and regulations.