Agree to terms and conditions required, automatically agree to receive advertisements… “Limiting user choice”
International transfer of information must also be considered… TikTok “Review in accordance with laws and regulations if necessary”
Suspicions of violation of the Personal Information Protection Act by Chinese short-form (short video) platforms ‘TikTok’ and ‘TikTok Lite’, which are rapidly growing in domestic social networking services (SNS), are not going away.
According to the information technology (IT) industry on the 6th, in order to sign up for TikTok or TikTok Lite, a lightweight version of TikTok, you must agree to all terms of use, including personal information collection, and consent to advertising is granted regardless of your will as soon as you sign up.
In particular, as TikTok Lite is growing in size with an unconventional sign-up event that provides points that can be cashed out when you invite friends, there are voices inside and outside the industry that we need to look into TikTok’s suspicions of violating the law.
To sign up for TikTok and TikTok Lite, you must agree to both the ‘Terms of Service’ and ‘Privacy Policy’, but experts point out that the policy of not allowing users to choose the collection and use of personal information is illegal.
Article 22, Paragraph 5 of the Personal Information Protection Act states that ‘Personal information processors shall not refuse to provide goods or services on the grounds that the information subject does not consent to matters to which the data subject can selectively consent.’
Kim Myeong-joo, a professor in the Department of Information Security at Seoul Women’s University, said, “It is problematic to prevent people from using the app if they do not agree to the personal information collection items,” and added, “The same issue has been raised by the Personal Information Protection Committee before.” “He pointed out.
The method of consenting to receiving advertisements may also be illegal. Consent to select advertisements is not required during the sign-up process, but after sign-up, consent is processed for the ‘Use of TikTok Lite external activity data for ad targeting’ item. Professor Kim emphasized that it was “obviously illegal” and that “advertising items must be specified separately from other terms and conditions and users must clearly check them.”
It is also important to consider whether sufficient consent has been obtained regarding the transfer of collected personal information to countries such as China.
Due to the revision of the Personal Information Protection Act in March last year, separate consent is required for overseas transfer of personal information, and TikTok also updated the relevant information in its personal information processing policy. However, it is necessary to check whether consent was obtained from previous subscribers in accordance with the revised law. The Security Council is also closely reviewing TikTok’s personal information management policy.
TikTok said, “Under current law, we have confirmed that separate consent for overseas transfer is not required when information is processed within the scope of consignment notified in the personal information processing policy,” and added, “If necessary, we plan to review it in accordance with future laws.”
According to Mobile Index, a mobile big data platform, TikTok Lite’s monthly active users (MAU) in August of this year was 4.58 million, growing at a similar level to TikTok.
(Seoul = News 1)
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2024-10-06 11:44:22