첨단과학기술시대에 웨어러블기기 이용급증에 따른 개인건강정보 보호를 위한 입법적 대응방안

In today’s high-tech era of science and technology, the number of users of wearable appliances in various fields has increased rapidly, both domestically and overseas. The number of users of wearable devices is rapidly increasing due to the rapid development of advanced science and technology. The use of wearable devices is spreading explosively in the health care field, such as Google’s wearable devices, Samsung wearable devices and so on. In addition, research, development, sales, and use of healthcare wearable devices that can manage information about individuals’ current and past health conditions quickly, easily and efficiently anytime and anywhere are expected to increase rapidly in the future. As a result, the number of people using a wearable device for their health care has increased so much that the risk of infringement of very sensitive and private personal information such as personal health information has increased remarkably. Above all, personal health information includes personal medical history, family history, mental health records, medical records, and so on. And this kind of information such as personal health information is very private and sensitive to individuals. If individual health information is indiscriminately infringed by individuals such as government agencies or individuals by hacking, etc., the freedom of individuals, which is guaranteed as one of basic human rights in the Constitution, is seriously infringed. Personal health information, which is one of the many personal information, is further protected and strengthened, so that personal health information can not be hacked, stored, collected, or sold indiscriminately by the country or by company. Thus it is very important to protect basic human rights, which is a core value of the Supreme Corporate Constitution. Most of all, it is necessary to protect personal health information, which is the private, sensitive and intimate area of individuals due to the rapid increase of users of wearable devices, which are being developed and sold due to the advanced science and technology that is rapidly developing in today’s high-technology era. Therefore the goal of this study is to create environment for safe use of wearable devices in the era of advanced science and technology and to make sure that the secrets and freedoms of each individual’s private life and human dignity which are important values as the ultimate objective and ultimate ideology of the state in the Constitution, can be effectively protected.