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Privacy model for DTC genetic testing using fully homomorphic encryption (동형암호를 활용한 DTC유전자검사 프라이버시모델)

  • Hye-hyeon Jin;Chae-ry Kang;Seung-hyeon Lee;Gee-hee Yun;Kyoung-jin Kim
    • Convergence Security Journal
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    • v.24 no.2
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    • pp.133-140
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    • 2024
  • The spread of Direct-to-Consumer (DTC) genetic testing, where users request tests directly, has been increasing. With growing demand, certification systems have been implemented to grant testing qualifications to non-medical institutions, and the scope of tests has been expanded. However, unlike cases in less regulated foreign countries, disease-related tests are still excluded from the domestic regulations. The existing de-identification method does not adequately ensure the uniqueness and familial sharing of genomic information, limiting its practical utility. Therefore, this study proposes the application of fully homomorphic encryption in the analysis process to guarantee the usefulness of genomic information while minimizing the risk of leakage. Additionally, to safeguard the individual's right to self-determination, a privacy preservation model based on Opt-out is suggested. This aims to balance genomic information protection with maintainability of usability, ensuring the availability of information in line with the user's preferences.

The Evaluation for Web Mining and Analytics Service from the View of Personal Information Protection and Privacy (개인정보보호 관점에서의 웹 트래픽 수집 및 분석 서비스에 대한 타당성 연구)

  • Kang, Daniel;Shim, Mi-Na;Bang, Je-Wan;Lee, Sang-Jin;Lim, Jong-In
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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    • v.19 no.6
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    • pp.121-134
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    • 2009
  • Consumer-centric marketing business is surely one of the most successful emerging business but it poses a threat to personal privacy. Between the service provider and the user there are many contrary issues to each other. The enterprise asserts that to abuse the privacy data which is anonymous there is not a problem. The individual only will not be able to willingly submit the problem which is latent. Web traffic analysis technology itself doesn't create issues, but this technology when used on data of personal nature might cause concerns. The most criticized ethical issue involving web traffic analysis is the invasion of privacy. So we need to inspect how many and what kind of personal informations being used and if there is any illegal treatment of personal information. In this paper, we inspect the operation of consumer-centric marketing tools such as web log analysis solutions and data gathering services with web browser toolbar. Also we inspect Microsoft explorer-based toolbar application which records and analyzes personal web browsing pattern through reverse engineering technology. Finally, this identified and explored security and privacy requirement issues to develop more reliable solutions. This study is very important for the balanced development with personal privacy protection and web traffic analysis industry.

Privacy Protection and RFID(Radio Frequency IDentification) (RFID와 프라이버시 보호)

  • Lee, Cheol-Ho
    • Proceedings of the Korea Contents Association Conference
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    • 2006.11a
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    • pp.443-446
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    • 2006
  • RFID is the core of realizing ubiquitous environment. This is expected to improve economical effect through related industry revitalization, make-work, and so on, in the future, and to be linked to social see-through enhancement via national life change. However unchecked RFID use lets retailers collect unprecedented huge information and they link it to customer information database, so the voice of worry to bring about a result of trampling down consumer privacy doesn't make a negligible situation. Although RFID system is spreaded out socially, the servicing of law and system is not accomplished to protect individuals from personal information violation threat. At the same time, in ubiquitous computing environment, to protect individual information efficiently, from the step of planning and deciding this technology system, constitutional law, norm, the basic legal rights of the people, and so forth is to be considered. The objective of the research is to persent the privacy protection from the viewpoints of law on RFID.

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The Relationship between CSR Activities and Attitude toward Discount Store: The Moderating Role of Community Attachment (할인점의 사회적 책임 활동과 점포태도간의 관계 : 지역애착도의 조절효과)

  • Moon, Youn-Hee;Kim, Jae-Wook;Choi, Ji-Ho
    • Journal of Distribution Research
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    • v.14 no.1
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    • pp.1-25
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    • 2009
  • This article examines community attachment as boundary condition that moderates the relationship between CSR activities and attitude in the discount store context. Using a sample of 1,118 consumers that have a purchasing experience. Results showed that CSR activities such as social contribution, consumer protection, and environmental protection have a significant effect on the attitude toward discount store. In addition, the authors found the role of community attachment as moderator. The discussion focuses on the meaning of the results for strategic CSR activities and the need for additional studies to clarify the relationship between CSR activities and store attitude.

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A Study on the Measurement and Determination of External Loop Impedance on TN-C-S System (TN-C-S 접지계통에서 외부 루프 임피던스의 실측 및 기준값 설정에 관한 연구)

  • Yi, Geon-Ho;Jung, Jin-Soo;Moon, Hyun-Wook;Kim, Sun-Gu
    • The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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    • v.62 no.8
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    • pp.1163-1168
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    • 2013
  • The maximum allowable value of loop impedance($Z_s$) to secure the operation of overcurrent protective devices and the safety for indirect contact is a very important in TN-C-S system. The loop impedance is divided into inner loop impedance which consumer can adjust and external loop impedance($Z_e$) which only electric operator can adjust. Thus, an external loop impedance which limits to less than a certain value is a very important factor for human body protection against electric shock in TN-C-S system. The concept of loop impedance($Z_s$) is recently introduced to the domestic, the study about external loop impedance is yet insufficient. However, the study about the reference impedance as specified by the IEC 60725 standard to improve the quality and reliability of the power supply is being made. In this paper, reference value of external loop impedance($Z_e$) to meet domestic environment will be proposed by the nationwide measurement and statistical analysis.

A Case Study on imposing anti-dumping duty against Chinese Ceramic Tile (중국산 도자기질 타일 반덤핑관세부과 사례에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Hee-Kil
    • THE INTERNATIONAL COMMERCE & LAW REVIEW
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    • v.42
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    • pp.337-364
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    • 2009
  • Trade remedy is the system that additional duty or import quantity restriction would be imposed on the import products, in case that unfair imports damage domestic industry or even proper import products damage significantly domestic industry. The system is secured by the act of unfair trade practice investigation & industrial damage remedy, tariff act, WTO agreement. Anti-dumping duty act is the system that duties are assessed with the equal or less amount of the difference between normal transaction price and dumping price, in case that the product imported under dumping price causes or may cause damages in domestic industry, or the development of domestic industry should be delayed practically. Recently, the problems related with anti-dumping duty imposed as the part of the trade remedy occur frequently. It is necessary to discuss whether the anti-dumping duty act is practically trade remedy which does comply with GATT regulations and WTO agreements as the criteria of international law and is in line with the intent of domestic act in the suffered country, or it does return to protective trade or reduce the protection of consumer. On the basis of this discussion, it would be difficult to impose the antidumping duty on industrial products in order to protect domestic industry, when considering the expected free trade agreements of Korea-US, Korea-China and Korea-Japan. In order to survive under the current severe competition of world trade market, companies should raise the competitiveness by themselves without relying on the current trade acts to provide with a certain protection. This thesis should bring those attentions.

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The Research on the Disposal of Unused Cloths -Focusing on the Environmental Protection- (착용하지 않는 의복의 처리실태에 관한 조사 연구 -환경보전을중심으로-)

  • 김병미
    • Journal of the Korean Home Economics Association
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    • v.35 no.2
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    • pp.19-32
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    • 1997
  • The purpose of this research is to find out ways of disposing unused cloths focusing on the environmental protection. To achieve its aim, previous researches are studied and simultaneously a survey has been done for housewives in Taejeon city. Collected data have been analyzed by the SPSS program. The result of this research is as follows. On the questions concerning planned clothes buying, meaningful differences are obtained according to their ages, degrees of education, occupations, patterns of housing. On the period wearing cloths, meaningful difference is shown only by the age. the first reason for disposing of unused cloths is that the cloths become unfit for the body, second is that the designs or colors become so old that the consumer does not like it any more. On the ways of currently disposing of unused cloths are very much different from on the ways of desirable disposal of unused cloths. On the questions of recycling, the experience of wearing used cloths given by others is high. On the question of 'what would you do if you were given used cloths?', the commonest answer is 'I would wear them because it would be beneficial economically.', 'I wouldn't wear them.', 'I would wear them because it would be any help for resource frugality or pollution prevention'. On the question of the experience of getting used cloths voluntarily, 38.1 percentage of pollees has answered yes, 62 percentage no.

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The Development of Face Cover Designs to Activate Outdoor Life (아웃도어 라이프 활성화를 위안 페이스 커버 개발 연구)

  • Kim, Chan-Ju;Ro, Mi-Kyung
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Costume
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    • v.59 no.1
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    • pp.47-59
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    • 2009
  • This paper aimed at the development of face covers which is face protection articles for blocking UV rays and yellow sands, with a view to assist the further activation of outdoor life. The four-stage design process of field study, design, design evaluation, final selection of designs was set up for the effective product development. Field study included on-line and off-line market survey on the products for sale in market and observation on those wearing face covers. Depth interviews were done to know consumer understandings and satisfaction levels for current face covers. The results of market survey showed that most of the face covers currently in the market were mask types, which were produced for the blocking of dust and yellow sands rather than UV ray protection. The major clients of the mask were the women in their 30's-50's and the designs for these clients were very limited. Since the number of younger women and men enjoy the outdoor sports has increased, the face covers for these people should be developed. For this purpose, the direction of new face cover design had 2 points: diversification of design in terms of color, material, shape and giving seasonal differences. 12 designs were designed on the first design stage, but after both wearing test by 16 testees and UV ray blocking test to evaluate these designs, 6 face cover designs were finally selected.

A Study on Child Rearing in the High Officials' Collection of Works During the Late Period of the Goryo Dynasty (II) (고려 말 신흥사대부의 개인문집에 나타난 아동양육(II))

  • Shin, Yang-Jai
    • Journal of the Korean Home Economics Association
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    • v.44 no.2 s.216
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    • pp.37-48
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    • 2006
  • The purpose of this study is to explore practices of the child rearing in the late period of the Goryo Dynasty. This study was using the historical method and the materials for analysis were the literatures written from the late thirteenth century to the fourteenth century in Goryo Dynasty, such as 'the Ikjaijip'(익재집), 'Mokeunjip'(목은집), 'Yangchonjip'(양촌집). According to the results, parents, grandparents, maternal grandmother, and an elder sister played important roles in child-rearing. And parenting roles were expected to give their children affections and consistent disciplines. In terms of sustenance for children, children were provided with boiled rice as principal food and seasonal fruit and rice cake as snacks. In housing habits, children, especially boys, shared the same room with their grandfather. And children were assured of physical safety and psychological protection through cultural practices, such as taboo, prayers, humble naming, first birthday celebration, and dreams of forthcoming conception. Finally, disciplining of children was focused on studies for Confucianism and shaping basic habits for cultivation of mind.

The Effects of Corporate Social Responsibility on Brand Attachment and Brand Equity (패션 기업의 사회적 책임이 브랜드 애착 및 브랜드 자산에 미치는 영향)

  • Kim, Mi-Young;Lee, Seung-Hee
    • The Research Journal of the Costume Culture
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    • v.14 no.4
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    • pp.684-697
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    • 2006
  • The purpose of this study was to exam the effect of fashion social responsibility of fashion corporate brand on brand attachment and equity. A total of 217 female college students in Seoul and its suburb responded for this study. For data analysis, descriptive statistics, factor analysis, and multiple regression were used for this study. As the result, first, corporate social responsibility was classified into five factors such as social service, public local facility, economic responsibility, consumer protection and environmental protection factors. Second, brand attachment was classified into four factors such as love, interest, perception and trust factors. Third, brand equity was classified into four factors such as loyalty, quality-image, marketing and recognition factors. Generally, fashion social responsibility factors was correlated with higher scores on brand attachment and brand equity. Finally, the results revealed that corporate social responsibility accounted for 12% of the explained variance brand attachment, also brand attachment accounted for 32% of the explained variance brand equity, while Corporate social responsibility accounted for 14% of the explained variance brand equity. Based on these results, fashion brand marketing strategies would be suggested.

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