The Personal Information Protection Commission (PIPC) has designated the National Tax Service and the Korea Disease Control Agency as additional operating institutions for the Personal Information Innovation Zone. This move aims to enhance the safe utilization of data closely related to citizens' lives, such as tax, finance, and infectious diseases.
The PIPC announced on September 21 that the number of operating institutions for the Personal Information Innovation Zone will increase from the existing eight to ten. The current institutions include the National Data Agency, the National Cancer Center, the Korea Social Security Information Service, Douzone Bizon, the Korea Expressway Corporation, the Korea Educational and Research Information Service, Gwangju Technopark, and the Daegu Digital Innovation Promotion Agency.
The Personal Information Innovation Zone provides a secure data processing environment that allows for more flexible use of pseudonymized information. Enhanced security measures, such as multi-factor authentication and real-time screen recording, support researchers and businesses in utilizing data.
Users in this space can benefit from relaxed pseudonymization levels, the use of various linkage keys, and the long-term storage of pseudonymized information for ongoing and repetitive research. This will facilitate research and data integration and analysis that were previously challenging in existing pseudonymization environments.
The newly designated National Tax Service and Korea Disease Control Agency are expected to begin full operations early next year after undergoing final on-site inspections by the PIPC.
The PIPC anticipates that there will be cases utilizing data closely related to citizens' lives, such as tax and finance data from the National Tax Service and comprehensive infectious disease data from the Korea Disease Control Agency.
Looking ahead, the PIPC plans to continue expanding the Innovation Zone and support data linkage and utilization among operating institutions through a developing connection hub. The commission aims to discover data utilization cases through seminars and meetings among operating institutions, thereby strengthening the foundation for personal information use in the age of artificial intelligence (AI).
* This article has been translated by AI.
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