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ROK National Assembly (Sept. 24, 2024) with a copy of South Korea’s Personal Information Protection Act in the background | Image: Korea Pro, edited by Korea Pro
The Ministry of Science and ICT’s Tuesday briefing concluding that authentication failures and post-incident reporting lapses enabled large-scale exposure of personal data at Coupang indicates that South Korea’s privacy law reform is shifting corporate liability from fault-based punishment toward presumptive accountability.
This move places the evidentiary burden on companies to demonstrate how they prevented, detected and handled personal data breaches — and in line with a broader legislative shift that already gained momentum since last year.
The Ministry of Science and ICT’s Tuesday briefing concluding that authentication failures and post-incident reporting lapses enabled large-scale exposure of personal data at Coupang indicates that South Korea’s privacy law reform is shifting corporate liability from fault-based punishment toward presumptive accountability.
This move places the evidentiary burden on companies to demonstrate how they prevented, detected and handled personal data breaches — and in line with a broader legislative shift that already gained momentum since last year.
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