The Personal Information Protection Commission will hold a forum on improving systems for processing information on children, teenagers and deceased people at 2 p.m. on Nov. 17 at EL Tower in Seoul.

The PIPC plans to share key policy directions on protecting and handling information on children, teenagers and deceased people. It will also hear opinions from experts and the industry.

The first session will discuss directions for improving the legal framework for protecting children and teenagers’ personal information. It will cover measures to build a personal information protection system suited to children and teenagers’ ages, including age verification. It will also discuss safeguards related to profiling that analyses personal information to identify children and teenagers’ characteristics or interests, and measures to support deletion of children and teenagers’ personal information posted by third parties such as parents.

The second session will discuss directions for improving systems for protecting and processing information on deceased people. It will cover measures to allow data subjects to decide, while alive, their intentions on how their information is handled. It will also discuss standards and scope for access to information by third parties such as bereaved family members after death, and standardising related processing procedures by internet businesses and measures to protect third parties.

The PIPC plans to seek a reasonable direction for system improvements by respecting the deceased person’s intentions while alive and the need to protect personal information, while also considering legitimate demand by bereaved family members and others to use information.