Digital Age Personal Information Protection, Law firm Veat Personal Information Protection Team’s Response Solutions
Article posted in 2024-09-06 17:11:34 | VEAT
In the digital age, personal information protection is essential for a company's success and building trust. Law firm Veat’s Personal Information Protection team has successfully performed over 1,054 cases of personal information consultation from 2019 to 2023, and has provided leading legal services in the personal information protection field, particularly by handling over 642 cases of personal information leakage response and incident processing from 2020 to 2023.
Veat’s Personal Information Protection team performs personal information protection consultation and system setup consulting to ensure compliance with personal information-related laws and regulations, and supports clients in minimizing the risk of personal information leakage. Furthermore, it provides comprehensive advice on various legal issues, including drafting essential documents such as personal information collection consent forms and personal information processing policies, responding to on-site inspections by regulatory authorities, and crisis management for breaches and leaks.
Veat provides personal information protection solutions tailored for startups and IT companies. By providing advice tailored to the company's size and industry characteristics, it supports each company in fulfilling its legal obligations while strengthening personal information protection. In addition, it assists companies in responding to on-site inspections related to personal information protection by government agencies such as the Personal Information Protection Commission and provides consulting based on over 20 practical experiences in the event of a data breach, helping companies comply with legal requirements quickly and efficiently. Law firm Veat is composed of attorneys with expertise in various fields who form a team to effectively resolve personal information protection issues for companies. Sung-ho Choi, Managing Attorney has achieved outstanding results in M&A and company law based on his experience as Deputy Director of the Startup Legal Support Team. He also specializes in IT company personal information consultation due to his major in computer engineering. Dong-young Song, Managing Attorney served as Secretary-General of the Korea Personal Information Protection Association (KAPP) and Deputy Director of the Personal Information Certification Institute, and has been involved in personal information protection in various ways, including conducting expert lectures for personal information protection managers of the National Health Insurance Service..png)
Solutions tailored for startups and IT companies
Introduction of Attorneys
Seung-cheol Baek, Partner Attorney serves as a consulting attorney for the Personal Information Protection Commission and is also appointed as a Personal Information Research and Development Project Reviewer and a Personal Information Safe Zone Expert, providing extensive advice in the field of personal information protection. He also holds an
Eun-byeol Jo, Partner Attorney was selected as a distinguished consulting attorney for the Personal Information Protection Commission and serves as a member of the Information Disclosure Review Committee, providing advice on personal information protection for public institutions and private companies.
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Awards and Achievements of Law Firm Veat
1. 2023 대한민국 Digital Innovation Award
Received the Science and ICT Minister’s commendation for contributing to strengthening industrial competitiveness through digital convergence.
2. Appointment of Consulting Attorneys for the Personal Information Protection Commission
Attorneys Seung-cheol Baek and Eun-byeol Jo have served as consulting attorneys for the Personal Information Protection Commission since 2019, playing an important role in resolving legal issues related to personal information.
3. ALB Korea Law Awards Finalist 4. Secretary-General of the Korea Personal Information Protection Association (KAPP)
Law firm Veat has been selected as a finalist for two consecutive years in the Korean Deal Law Firm and Boutique Law Firm of the Year categories by Asian Legal Business, a subsidiary of the global media group Thomson Reuters.
Managing Attorney Dong-young Song serves as Secretary-General of the Korea Personal Information Protection Association (KAPP), contributing to personal information protection policy and legal amendments.
▶ Performed a project to enhance the personal information protection system by responding to the Personal Information Protection Commission's data request submission and personal information protection system enhancement project
▶ Comprehensive checking of personal information processing vulnerabilities and potential legal violations for companies, providing personal information consulting
▶ In the event of a personal information leakage incident, personal information leakage response for civil, criminal, and administrative lawsuits
▶ Provided legal advice on consent forms for personal information provision from minors commissioned by an edtech startup
▶ Provided legal advice on personal information collection and use consent forms required in the hiring process for companies
▶ Provided legal advice on personal information processing policies, personal information collection consent forms for a bio/healthcare web service
▶ Provided legal advice on online shopping mall terms of use, personal information processing policies, personal information consent forms
▶ Provided legal advice regarding the ‘obligations to notify the personal information subject’ when a location-based service provider implements a service to provide personal location information to a third party
▶ Proceeded with a case of domestic and overseas legal response for cryptocurrency exchange hacking and cryptocurrency leakage incidents
▶ Numerous cases of legal response to a foundation's students leaking thousands of personal information.png)