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Personal
Information Protection Commission recommends removing unnecessary
personal information from 230 civil service form - Results of 996
deliberations on the enactment and amendment bills in the first half
of 2020
The Personal Information Protection Commission (PIPC)
assessed the infringement elements of personal information on 211
statutes enacted and amended in the first half of this year. The 104
statutes were recommended for improvement, so that unnecessary
personal information would not be collected in 233 civil service
forms. In those 104 statutes, a total of 263 provisions are
recommended for improvement, and there are 233 recommendations for
civil service forms which is 89 percent of total.
According to
the recommendations on the form, the Resident registration
numbers(RRN) cannot be collected solely by the consent of data
subject and should be based on the Presidential Decree or above. In
case there is no legal grounds or proper necessity, the RRN would be
recommended to be deleted or changed to the date of birth(38 cases)
or recommended for optional terms if both home and mobile phone
numbers were required to be entered(62 cases). If the applicant is a
corporation, collecting personal information in civil service forms
was improved by preventing the collection of the date of birth,
address and telephone number (68 cases) and deleting gender,
nationality and occupation that are excessively collected compared to
the purpose of handling civil complaints (65 cases).
Acting
chairperson of PIPC, Kim Il-jae said, "Considering the concerns
of the public who are reluctant to disclose personal information due
to social issues such as spam text messages or scam calls, we will
make efforts to improve it by recommending each ministry at the
legislative stage to prevent excessive personal information
collection."
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