The advancement of the 4th Industrial Revolution technology such as big data brings convenience and benefits to our lives. It is predicted that it will not only monitor and predict the spread of infectious disease through the use of big data technolog...
The advancement of the 4th Industrial Revolution technology such as big data brings convenience and benefits to our lives. It is predicted that it will not only monitor and predict the spread of infectious disease through the use of big data technology in the COVID–19 Corona crisis such as the status of social distancing, fever detection, body signal detection, but also it is used to develop a medicine and treatment methods through medical big data collected from infected people. As the revision of the Personal Information Protection Act in February enabled the use of pseudonymous data for public purposes such as scientific research and statistics, it is expected that the big data obtained from public data will not only help overcoming Corona crisis but also how to respond to social chaos caused by other infectious disease in the future. Along with the development of big data, concerns that follow like both sides of the coin, include the emergence of Big Brother, the side effects of the monitoring society, and the protection of the information vulnerable group derived from the use of big data. In this paper, it is examined how the big data technologies have been utilized in the Corona crisis, and what the legal issues related to the use of big data are, pointing to the theoretical basis of big data governance in a normative sense. It is explored what the public legal points to consider in utilizing big data will be, so that public health crises such as infectious disease that may continue in the future can be overcome at an early stage.