Hospital that disclosed unvaccinated individuals' information... Accepts Human Rights Commission's recommendation for recurrence prevention

[Asia Economy Reporter Seongpil Cho] The National Human Rights Commission announced on the 24th that the director of Hospital A, who disclosed information about employees unvaccinated against COVID-19 without their consent, has accepted the recommendation to prevent recurrence.

Earlier, in June, the Human Rights Commission judged that the director's actions violated the right to self-determination over personal information as stipulated in Article 10 of the Constitution, and recommended measures to prevent similar cases from recurring. After receiving the recommendation, Hospital A reportedly took measures including ▲checking whether notifications or disclosures of the unvaccinated list were made without individual consent ▲reviewing whether the right to self-determination over personal information was violated by disclosing sensitive information to others during personal information handling procedures ▲establishing procedures for obtaining individual consent.

The Human Rights Commission stated, "We deemed it necessary to disclose that the respondent accepted the Commission's recommendation to prevent similar cases from recurring in the future, and thus disclosed the related information pursuant to Article 50 of the National Human Rights Commission Act."

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