We can not approve the prior action to initiate the Korea-US FTA negotation.
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On July 1, 2004, the Korean Progressive Network ‘Jinbonet’ held an open conference entitled ‘Tasks and Perspectives of Privacy Impact Assessment’ at the assembly hall of National Human Rights Commission of Korea. The Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) is about the institutionalization of the process to protect individual privacy.
Civil society organizations maintain that the privacy protection act should be established under the supervision of an independent body which can deal with both the public and private sectors.
The Ministry of Information and Communication and also the Ministry of Culture and Tourism have provided an arbitration proposal regarding the expanded use of mobile phones which now includes playing music from MP3 files. The free MP3 files are played with an MP3 player facility on the phones (MP3 phones) and have now become a social issue. As it stands now, the proposal made by the government seriously violates the right of users and should be immediately withdrawn. Furthermore, any counterproposal must be revised to provide assurance of users’ rights.
On April 7, 2004, Police Headquarter announced the commencement of a project regarding the search for missing children involving the collection of DNA. Samples of children’s DNA who are presently under the care of protection facilities throughout the country and parents with missing children would be used to establish the DNA Database.
On April 7, 2004, Police Headquarter announced the commencement of a project regarding the search for missing children involving the collection of DNA. Samples of children’s DNA who are presently under the care of protection facilities throughout the country and parents with missing children would be used to establish the DNA Database.
On January 4, 2004, the Youth Protection Committee announced a decision to remove homosexuality from the individual assessment list of harmful materials to youth. This list included materials describing bestiality, or other motivating socially unacceptable sexual activity including orgy, incest, homosexual love, masochism, sadism, and prostitution.
The Internet Real Name Law, which was passed at the plenary session of Parliament on March 9, 2004, requires Internet media and press websites to verify all names and identification numbers of authors who post messages on bulletin boards or chat rooms regarding elections.
The Resident Registration Act’s unconstitutional requirements of fingerprinting must be stopped.
The Intellectual Property Right is not merely a possession of copyright holders. Intellectual products would be meaningless if there were no users to enjoy them. It must be recognized that the fundamental aim of the Intellectual Property Right regime is to strengthen the consensus and exchange between the authors and users.
