TVING Begins Personal Information Protection Training for All Employees

[Financial News] After suffering a personal information breach involving 39.54 million accounts, TVING is strengthening all employees’ personal information protection capabilities and its overall data-management system. The company plans to apply protection principles from service planning through the destruction of personal information while continuously improving related systems and work procedures.
TVING said it conducted personal information protection training for all executives and employees on the 14th.
The training was led by Jong-soo Yoon, a partner attorney at Lee & Ko and a director of the Association of Personal Information Professionals. Under the theme “Rising Risks of Personal Information Breaches, Changes in the Regulatory Paradigm, and Response Strategies,” Yoon explained changes in the personal information protection environment, ways to establish preventive systems, and directions for personal information protection in the age of artificial intelligence (AI).
The training also covered the importance of the “data life cycle,” which manages the entire process from the creation and collection of personal information to its use, storage, and destruction. Participants shared ways to strengthen management standards at each stage, including reviewing the purposes for processing personal information and retention periods and destroying unnecessary information in a timely manner.
The training also emphasized “privacy by design,” which applies personal information protection principles from the service planning and development stages. The aim is to make personal information protection a basic principle reflected from the planning and design stages, rather than a task addressed only after a service is launched. Yoon emphasized, "Personal information protection is not a response measure to be taken after a service is launched; it is a basic principle that must be considered from the planning stage," adding, "It is important to establish a system that enables personal information processing to be reviewed and protective measures to be implemented throughout the entire service lifecycle."
Starting with this training, TVING will expand related training and programs. The company plans to review its overall personal information processing management system and improve its systems and work procedures, establishing personal information protection as a work principle practiced by all employees.
Min-seok Ko, TVING’s executive vice president in charge of human resources, said, "We will continue reviewing the relevant standards and procedures alongside training so that employees can apply the importance of and responsibility for processing personal information to their work, and we will make improvements wherever necessary."
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