Responsibilities of the State
(1) The State and local governments shall formulate policies to prevent harmful consequences of beyondpurpose collection, abuse and misuse of personal information, indiscrete surveillance and tracking, etc. and to enhance the dignity of human beings and to ensure the protection of individual privacy.
(2) The State and local governments shall establish policy measures, such as improving statutes or regulations, necessary to protect the data subject's rights as provided in Article 4.
(3) The State and local governments shall formulate policies necessary for protecting the personal information of children under 14 years of age so that such children can clearly understand the effects of the processing of personal information and the rights of data subjects, etc.
(4) The State and local governments shall respect, promote, and support self-regulating data protection activities of personal information controllers to improve unreasonable social practices relating to the processing of personal information.
(5) When applying statutes or regulations or municipal ordinances regarding the processing of personal information, the State and local governments shall be in conformity with the principles of information protection to guarantee the rights of data subjects.