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Recently, there has been increased awareness of the importance of private data protection laws due to frequent private information leaks. As a result, The personal information protection law established in March, 2011 has caused both institution and policy changes differently from the personal information protection of the existing law.
Constitutionally, there are diverse rights concerning the protection and utilization of personal information. It is very important to study about these protection and utilization. The importance of preceding this study in advance lies in the fact that the improvement direction and contents of related legal system can be concretely and systematically suggested afterward.
In principle, the constitutional right to self decision of personal information is the right to decide to open and use personal information for themselves. However this right to self decision of personal information doesn’t vest absolute control respecting own information to each individual. We can not deny, of course, that there exist conflicts between the right of decision for personal information and the right of opening and using personal information to the public.
The European Union made more progress in this field and it can be known that, on Dec. 2009, Treaty of Lisbon stipulated personal information protection right as an independent basic right under the Constitution. Under these circumstances, the significance of bringing the right of protection of personal information within the fundamental rights and ascertaining the difference between stipulation and non stipulation must be scrutinized.