개인정보는 보호만 할 것인가?: 외국의 개인정보 활용정책 비교

Personal data have been the target of protection against illegal data disclosure and fraud, which drives more attention to ‘protection’ rather than ‘utilization’. In contrast, as personal data becomes the core resource of the digital world, the personal data is generating a new wave of opportunity for creating economic and societal value. Both U.K.s’ Midata and U.S.‘s Smart Disclosure are exemplary tools that help consumers make better informed decisions, and create more transparent, efficient markets for goods and services. Those two are the provision of data about consumer products and services, the companies that supply them, or about consumers themselves. They provide ‘machine readable data’, so that information is provided in formats computer programs can analyze and combine in ways that are directly useful to consumers. This study investigates and compares those two policies and provides policy recommendations for developing and implementing personal data-utilization policy in Korea. Several policy recommendations for implementing personal data use policy are suggested. First, governments need to play a critical role in paying more attention to data-utilization rather than data protection. Second, the value of data sets comes not only from the quality of the data they contain, but from their ability to be interpreted and used together with other data through data standardization and interoperability as well. Finally, data ecosystem should be balanced among stakehoders in operating the system. Individuals, companies, and governments, the most important three stakeholder groups would benefit through voluntary and non-selfish behavior in data production, management, and value creation.