Ahn Hyeong-hwan, Vice Chairman of KCC, Meets Meta Vice President... Urges User Protection

Meeting with Andy O'Connell, Meta Vice President

The Korea Communications Commission announced that on the afternoon of the 19th, Vice Chairman Ahn Hyung-hwan held a meeting with Andy O'Connell, Vice President of Product Policy and Strategy at Meta Platforms, who visited Korea, and requested cooperation in the Commission's digital platform user protection policy.

[Asia Economy Reporter Cha Min-young] The Korea Communications Commission (KCC) announced that Vice Chairman Ahn Hyung-hwan held a meeting on the afternoon of the 19th with Andy O'Connell, Vice President of Product Policy and Strategy at Meta Platforms, who visited Korea, and requested cooperation in the KCC's digital platform user protection policies.

Meta provides services such as Facebook, the world's largest social media platform, along with Instagram, WhatsApp, and Oculus.

Vice Chairman Ahn introduced the KCC's digital platform user protection policies, including algorithm transparency of digital platforms, prevention of illegal information distribution, and ensuring the safety of new services such as the metaverse (extended virtual world), and requested cooperation from Meta.

Vice President O'Connell explained the efforts made to create a safe usage environment on the company's social networking services (SNS) and metaverse services. These include publishing Meta's transparency reports, operating educational programs related to metaverse content development in Korea, and establishing a code of safe conduct to encourage responsibility among participants in the metaverse ecosystem.

Vice Chairman Ahn requested, "As the number of Korean users utilizing diverse and innovative services from global companies is increasing, we ask for further cooperation to prevent the distribution of illegal information and digital sex crime videos online, which the KCC is currently promoting."

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