<With Teacher Issue PICK> Data security war seen through the Line and TikTok incidents
2024-07-05 20:41:03
Line Yahoo recently received administrative guidance from the Japanese government to review its capital relationship with Naver due to an information leak issue, and submitted a report to the Japanese Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications containing a plan to separate the system from Naver Cloud.
However, the problem began in November last year when the personal information of Line users in Japan was leaked.
Professor Kim said, "Softbank's moves are unusual, including the dismissal of director Shin Jung-ho, who is the only Korean director of Line Yahoo in Japan and the developer of Line Messenger," and added, "If Softbank becomes the largest shareholder of Line Yahoo, it will have Japan's largest platform in its hands." “By adding it, we will be able to have the data of 200 million users in Japan, Southeast Asia, and Taiwan,” he explained.
However, U.S. politicians are of the position that TikTok poses a threat to their country's 'data security', saying, "TikTok is collecting personal information of U.S. citizens and transferring the data to China."
In response, there are criticisms that the U.S. government is using an external standard called national security to check the entry of Chinese companies into its domestic market, but Professor Kim said, "There are also concerns that data leaks to China themselves pose a major security threat to the United States. “This trend has recently led to the regulation of foreign platform services,” he said.
Professor Kim emphasized, “The Line Yahoo incident is also related to geopolitical changes in data.”
Professor Kim Sang-bae said, "In order to grow based on a domestic platform, it is important to build three things: technology, industry, and ecosystem. Korea is one of the few countries that has built all three." “It is not a problem, but we need to approach it from a platform geopolitical perspective,” he explained.
