It’s now less than two months until Korea begins to enforce the highly contentious “shutdown law,” which will bar kids aged 16 and under from playing online games between the hours of midnight and 6am. But now, adding to doubts about whether it will actually achieve anything, the law is facing another thorny question: given Nate/Cyworld’s recent security breach, is it right to compel youngsters to register their personal information with gaming companies?
On the 16th of this month, at a forum titled “Information Rights Through Revisions to the Game Law,” Jang Yeo-gyeong of the Progressive Network Centre said, “If the shutdown law is enforced, we’ll have the real-name system being applied to games too, so once again, criticism will arise about the gathering of personal data.”
The rarefied surrounds of a PC bang (room).
