Act on Promotion of Information and Communication
Network Utilization and Information Protection
CHAPTER I GENERAL PROVISIONS
Article 1 (Purpose) This Act’s purpose is to promote the use of information and
communications networks, to protect the user’s personal information when they are in
use of information and communications services, and to construct a milieu within which
users can safely use information and communications networks with the aim of
improving individual lives as well as the general public welfare.
Article 2 (Definitions)
(1)The definitions of terms used in this Act shall be as follows:
1.The term "information and communications networks" is meant to embody the
information and communications systems, under which telecommunications
infrastructure as prescribed in subparagraph 2 of Article 2 of the Framework Act on
Telecommunications are employed, or the telecommunications infrastructure,
computers, and software are used together for gathering, storage, processing, searching,
transmission and reception of information;
2.The term "information and communications services" is meant to signify the
telecommunications services stipulated in subparagraph 7 of Article 2 of the Framework
Act on Telecommunications, as well as information supply or the administration of the
information supply using telecommunications services;
3.The term "information and communications service providers" signifies the operators
of telecommunications, stipulated in Article 2 (1) 1 of the Telecommunications
Business Act, as well as other individual information suppliers or information supply
administrators who operate with the intention to earn profit through use of the services
rendered telecommunications service providers;
4.The term "users" means individuals who use the information and communications
services rendered by information and communications service providers;
5.The term "digital document" embodies all data standardized in document form within
which information is electronically compiled, sent or received, or stored by equipment,
including computers, that are capable of performing data processing;
6.The term "personal information" means the information concerning anyone living that
contains the code, letter, voice, sound, and/or image, which allows for the possibility for