<div dir="ltr">Thanks for your interest. <br>It's not a real-time mediation. <br>PIDMC will investigate the case and present its mediation plan to both sides. <br>Actually Facebook is likely not to accept investigation and mediation, then we are going to file a lawsuit against Facebook.<div><br></div><div>best, </div><div>Byoung-il Oh </div><div> <br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">2021년 7월 13일 (화) 오후 9:43, Salanieta T. Tamanikaiwaimaro <<a href="mailto:salanieta.tamanikaiwaimaro@gmail.com">salanieta.tamanikaiwaimaro@gmail.com</a>>님이 작성:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">Fascinating. Thank you for sharing.<div dir="auto">Is the mediation over zoom?</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Many thanks,</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, 13 Jul 2021, 2:46 am Byoung-il Oh via Governance, <<a href="mailto:governance@lists.igcaucus.org" target="_blank">governance@lists.igcaucus.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Dear colleagues, <br><br><div>Korean Progressive Network Jinbonet is responding to the abuse of personal information by Facebook in cooperation with a lawfirm Jihyang which is composed of progressive lawyers. Please refer to the press release below for more information.</div><div><br></div><div>Byoung-il Oh <br></div><div><br></div><div>* * * <br></div><div>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;text-align:center;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt" id="gmail-m_5435712258767799227m_5477279146117904369gmail-docs-internal-guid-b6307b6f-7fff-892a-df53-f07a479f23e0"><span style="font-size:20pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">PIDMC in South Korea Initiates Collective Dispute Mediation between Facebook and its Users </span></p>
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<p>Personal Information Dispute Mediation Committee(“PIDMC”) in South
Korea has announced on July 8th, in an official statement that it made a
resolution to commence the collective dispute mediation proceedings
between Facebook Inc. and its users in South Korea. PIDMC publicly
announced the commencement of the proceedings and following plans to
further accept applications from any other users who wish to participate
in the collective dispute mediation. In the coming months, PIDMC is
expected to proceed a thorough investigation over the complaint, and is
likely to provide recommendations or propose the mediation as a
settlement to the parties involved.</p>
<p>After eighty-nine Facebook users in South Korea, represented by
Lawfirm Jihyang, filed a collective complaint to PIDMC in April 16th,
against Facebook Inc. and Facebook Ireland, PIDMC has come to a decision
to open the case and proceed the mediation procedure. Kim, Il-Hwan
(Chairperson of PIDMC) chose to take proactive measures against Facebook
as public awareness arises against malpractices of big-techs on users’
data protection and privacy. According to PIDMC’s press release report,
this case marks as the very first collective dispute mediation case
since the Personal Information Protection Commission(“PIPC”) was
established last August, 2020.</p>
<p>The complaint claims that Facebook has been providing personal data
to third parties without user’s consent, in breach of Personal
Information Protection Act(“PIPA”). The users also filed a petition for
Facebook to disclose the details of the personal data sharing practices
including the scope of the personal data and the list of the third
parties that obtained the access to such data.</p>
<p>When Facebook accepts a collective dispute mediation award presented
by the PIDMC, the PIDMC may advise the personal information controller
of Facebook to prepare and submit a compensation plan for the benefit of
the non-party data subjects suffered from the same incident.</p>
<p>In previous to the users’ complaint for PIDMC, PIPC – a government
agency in South Korea on personal information and privacy protection –
has fined 6.7 billion KRW to Facebook in November, 2020, after an
investigation of Facebook’s business practices on user’s privacy
protection. The investigation report of PIPC showed that Facebook has
been sharing personal data of at least 3.3 million out of its 18 million
users in South Korea to the operators of third-party apps installed in
Facebook to create customised advertisements and services. PIPC
concluded that the users were unaware whether their data were being
collected and shared to the third parties, confirming that Facebook
obtained no legitimate consent of any of the users.</p>
<p>As PIDMC has commenced the dispute mediation procedure for Facebook,
any Facebook users can submit an application to participate in this case
until July 26th at PIDMC website(<a href="http://www.kopico.go.kr" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">www.kopico.go.kr</a> or <a href="mailto:kopico@korea.kr" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">kopico@korea.kr</a>) or to the legal representative, Lawfirm Jihyang(<a href="http://www.jihyangsosong.com" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">www.jihyangsosong.com</a>).</p>
<p>Lawfirm Jihyang and Korean Progressive Network Jinbonet – a civil
advocacy group for digital rights (<a href="http://www.jinbo.net" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">www.jinbo.net</a>) – also seek to file
additional complaints and other litigation suits against big-tech
companies for their malpractices on users’ privacy protection and
anti-competitive measures.</p>
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<p>Korean Progressive Network Jinbonet, Lawfirm Jihyang</p>
<p>for further information, please contact <a href="mailto:jihyang@jihyanglaw.com" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">jihyang@jihyanglaw.com</a></p>
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