Title | KCC RELEASES 2023 TRANSPARENCY REPORT ON HANDLING OF ILLEGAL FILMING CONTENT | ||
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Date | 2024-07-18 | Read | 2708 |
KCC RELEASES 2023 TRANSPARENCY REPORT ON HANDLING OF ILLEGAL FILMING CONTENT Disclosure of measures taken by 90 domestic and international internet service providers to prevent the distribution of illegal filming content Deletion and blocking of approximately 145,000 illegal filming content items to minimize secondary victimization in digital sex crimes The Korea Communications Commission (KCC, Chairman Kim Hong-il) has published the "2023 Transparency Report on the Handling of Illegal Filming Content*" submitted by major internet service providers and web hard drive service providers on its website. *This includes images, reproductions, edits, composites, and processed materials according to the "Act On Special Cases Concerning The Punishment Of Sexual Crimes" and child and youth sexual exploitation materials according to the "Act On The Protection Of Children And Youth Against Sex Offenses." The businesses required to submit the Transparency Report are special value-added telecommunications business operators (web hard drive service providers) and value-added telecommunications business operators of a certain scale* according to Article 64-5 of the Act On Promotion Of Information And Communications Network Utilization And Information Protection. For 2023, the target businesses include 90 major domestic and international internet service providers, such as Naver, Kakao, Google, Meta, and Twitter. * Value-added telecommunications business operators with annual revenue of over one billion KRW or an average daily user base of over 100,000, providing services like SNS, communities, chat rooms, internet personal broadcasting, and search platforms. The Transparency Report submitted by the internet service providers details the various technical and managerial efforts to prevent the distribution of illegal filming content, including reporting functions, search restrictions, pre-comparative identification and posting restrictions, and pre-warning measures. According to this year's Transparency Report, last year, internet service providers received and processed reports of 144,813 items of illegal filming content, fake pornography, and child and youth sexual exploitation materials from users and proxy reporting/deletion agents and organizations, resulting in the deletion or blocking of 81,578 items. Park Dong-joo, Director-General of the Broadcasting Communications Consumer Policy Bureau of the KCC, stated, "The distribution of digital sex crime videos inflicts irreparable harm on victims, making our society's collective effort to prevent this crucial. We hope that internet service providers will continue to diligently fulfill their social responsibilities to prevent secondary victimization, as they have done over the past year through various technical and managerial measures." The KCC plans to continue educating domestic and international businesses on their responsibilities to prevent the distribution of illegal filming content and will conduct on-site inspections to ensure the implementation of technical and managerial measures to prevent the distribution of digital sex crime content. ### The Korea Communications Commission |
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