Thank you for your question.
You’re quite right. Privacy principles can evolve over time because these are fundamental principles that affect human dignity, freedom, the ability to make decisions, the ability to choose what we share and with whom. Right now, we’re facing serious challenges with technology, because technology is evolving very quickly. Organizations like mine generally need to catch up. They need to learn about these tools and to develop technological capabilities. My office has developed capabilities to understand the technology and to act accordingly.
On the issue of human decisions that you alluded to, we also need to raise these issues in the course of legislative reforms. For instance, I made a recommendation calling for more transparency with artificial intelligence to understand the decisions that are made and to make sure humans are in the process. Recently, I was in Seoul for the global privacy assembly, and my office sponsored a resolution, which was adopted by the international community, that focused on the human role in the artificial intelligence process, its significance and what it must embody. This issue is therefore timely, and it’s somewhat of a response to the black box effect you mentioned.