Abstract
The provisions of the Personal Information Protection Act for duties of entities handling personal information will be effective on April 1st, 2005. In order to protect the rights and interests of individuals while considering usefulness of the personal information, the provisions stipulate skeleton of rules regarding collection of personal information, control of personal data, actions a data subject can request against retained personal data, and so on. Besides, the Act stipulates to set various complaint-handling systems in order to ensure the effectiveness of the Act as well as supervision measures by Government Ministers and criminal punishments. To comply with the Act, entities handling personal information need to voluntarily consolidate the internal framework referring to guidelines the ministries or agencies formulate.
