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 […]

* This article was written in collaboration with Ringle. Have you ever imagined someone watching you on the other side of your laptop? I picture unknown peepers staring at me all the time whenever I see the camera on my computer. As a cybersecurity journalist, I learned early in my career that web cameras, or […]

RSA Conference ― San Francisco ― While the evolution of artificial intelligence challenges the self-perception of human beings, society needs to build identity security platforms by leveraging good AI, an identity expert said on Monday. Rohit Ghai, CEO of RSA, analyzed that security comes first in the age of AI among the three main components […]

Three out of four South Koreans who seek compensation for privacy violations have reached a settlement through the assistance of the nation’s privacy watchdog last year. According to the Personal Information Protection Commission (PIPC) on Sunday, 206 cases related to conflicts over personal information being compromised have been resolved through the commission’s dispute mediation committee […]

KakaoTalk, a mobile  messaging application used by almost the entire population of South Korea, has been wrapped up in a massive controversy over personal data breaches. Its open chat rooms, which are supposed to protect the anonymity of participants, allegedly leak breadcrumbs out of users’ private information, providing malicious actors with opportunities to identify users […]