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Telegram’s artificial intelligence bot, a core feature of the popular messaging app, is being misused to generate deepfake pornography. In response to this alarming trend, South Korean police and the Ministry of Education have formed a task force to investigate and tackle the problem. On Wednesday, the Cybercrime Investigation Unit of the Seoul Metropolitan Police […]
Amid a nationwide strike by South Korean doctors that has stretched on for more than six months, tensions have escalated as a list of doctors who have returned to work was recently circulated online, sparking concern over doxing and potential threats to those breaking ranks. Initially uploaded to the file-sharing website Pastebin on August 9, […]
A Kentucky man has been sentenced to six years and nine months in prison after faking his own death by hacking a government system to evade child support payments, according to U.S. prosecutors. Jesse Kipf, a 39-year-old man from Somerset, Kentucky, faked his own death in January 2023 to avoid paying child support. Kipf accomplished […]
The South Korean government announced on Thursday that its state-operated employment platform was hit by a cyberattack, exposing 230,000 users’ private data. In a press release, the Korea Employment Information Service (KEIS) stated that they discovered 236,572 cases of unauthorized access in the national employment platform, Work-Net. The break in was conducted by 28 different […]
South Korean consumers will soon know just by looking at the label of a product whether it was built to effectively protect data. In a press release on Tuesday, the Personal Information Protection Commission (PIPC) stated that they are planning to issue a new certificate as a pilot program to give people more power over […]
South Korean teenagers successfully deleted nearly 750 posts which contained their personal information with the help of the country’s privacy agency. In a press release on Sunday, the Personal Information Protection Commission (PIPC) stated that it received almost 3,500 requests from children over the last two months as part of a pilot program aimed at […]
The South Korean privacy watchdog agency has imposed a fine of almost 900 million won (around $675,000) on Samsung Electronics on Wednesday for a series of information leaks that happened from 2020 to 2021. In a press release, the Personal Information Protection Commission (PIPC) stated that they held the 11th plenary session and decided to […]
The parents of one of the victims who died in a crowd surge that killed more than 150 people during Halloween festivities last year sued Apple, requesting that the company unlock their dead son’s iPhone so that they could uncover the true cause of his death. According to the Ho law firm, which represents the […]
By Kuksung Nam, The ReadableJun. 23, 2023 7:53PM GMT+9 Updated Jul. 24, 2023 9:15PM GMT+9 South Korea’s top digital policy official shared his visions on rapidly developing artificial intelligence on Friday, saying that the latest technologies should harmonize with the protection of personal information. “During the process of using AI and collecting data for its […]
Two public officials who made a list of single women employees at their organization lost an appeal, retaining the original judgement of the court which sentenced them to two and three years’ probation respectively. The defendants allegedly crafted this list to “entertain” a male official who was working as a secretary under the office of […]
The South Korean marines allegedly uploaded private information of 800 female personnel onto the government’s internal network and replaced the data after soldiers protested for it to be removed, according to the Marine Corps on Friday. The Marine Corps stated that the sexual distress prevention and response center sent an official document to the Command […]
A lending platform allegedly sold 200,000 users’ personal information to loan lenders and loan sharks without permission, according to a joint inspection by South Korean authorities on Monday. In a press release, the Financial Supervisory Service (FSS), the Financial Security Institute (FSI), the Gyeonggi provincial government, and the South Korean national police stated that they […]
The Ministry of Employment and Labor imposed fines on more than 140 companies over the past three years for breaching the country’s fair hiring procedure act, which prohibits employers from requesting that applicants include personal information in their resumes, such as height, weight, and marital status. According to the South Korean lawmaker Lee Joo-hwan on […]
