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When the Fair Trade Commission announced the legislative amendment of the Act on Consumer Protection in E-Commerce (hereinafter referred to as the E-Commerce Act), the Internet and start-up industries began to rise. In the process of pursuing the revision of the law, he expressed regret for ignoring the opinions of the industry and collecting only formal opinions without transparent information disclosure.
On the 7th, the Korea Internet Enterprises Association and the Korea Startup Forum issued a joint position and said, “I urge a full review of the newly established E-Commerce Act Article 29”.
On this day, the Fair Trade Commission (FTC) announced that the legislation that completely revised the e-commerce law enacted in 2002 will be announced by the 14th of next month. The goal is to improve the situation in which the platform is a brokerage business, and the responsibility is handed over to the merchants, and consumer damage remedies are neglected.
Article 29 of the E-Commerce Act, which they pointed out, implies an obligation for the platform operator to verify the identity information and provide it to the person who raises the problem when a problem occurs in the transaction between individuals. For example, when a dispute occurs in a used trading platform such as’carrot market’, the other user’s personal information is provided to the user.
They criticized that, “E-commerce is defined as an e-commerce transaction for anyone who becomes both a seller and a consumer, and obligating individual sellers to provide identity information is the same as asking 20 million consumers to disclose personal information.”
He then argued that “providing an individual’s real name, phone number, and address information directly to the parties to the transaction can seriously infringe on personal information, raise disputes, and cause social unrest.” In the process of dispute, the user’s safety may be threatened by the’identity information’ of another person acquired by an individual.
“Many startups driving digital transactions minimize the collection of personal information from consumers and use safe numbers to protect personal information in line with the global trend. This amendment goes against the global trend of consumer protection,” he added. .
Some pointed out that the revision of the E-Commerce Act lacked’procedural justification’.
They said, “The FTC claims that it has gathered opinions through a total of 21 stakeholder meetings in the process of preparing the amendment, but in fact it is only two or three times. Insisted.
“The FTC’s amendment has failed to secure both the content and procedural validity of the revision of the law.” Said.