보건의료 데이터와 개인정보 보호와의 관계에 대한 소고

In the era of big data, personal information protection is becoming increasingly important. As the technology for collecting personal information develops, it is expected that the argument for protecting personal information will gradually increase. But on the other hand, it's easy to witness the privacy paradox, where people value their privacy but easily provide it for even the smallest benefit. There are various types of data, and accordingly, the concept of data is different for each person who uses it. Therefore, in this paper, the distinction between data and information is examined, and digital data is the subject of analysis. There are also various forms of providing personal information. There are cases where personal information is voluntarily disclosed as in social network services such as Facebook, and there are cases where personal information is provided within the scope necessary for the purpose of a transaction, such as online shopping. In this paper, personal information of medical data was examined. Although Korea introduced the pseudonymized information system by amending the Personal Information Protection Act in 2020, it is not fully utilized due to high concern for personal information protection. If health and medical data are used for treatment or new drug development, the resulting social utility is very large. In particular, public data such as the National Health Insurance Service and the Health Insurance Review & Assessment Service are basically pseudonymized information. In order to utilize pseudonymized information, it is time to admit that technically perfect pseudonymization is impossible and to think about how to use data.