{"id":215784,"date":"2026-02-20T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/20\/personal-data-of-foreign-teachers-exposed-on-recruiter-sites-raising-privacy-concerns\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T17:15:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T22:15:10","slug":"personal-data-of-foreign-teachers-exposed-on-recruiter-sites-raising-privacy-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/20\/personal-data-of-foreign-teachers-exposed-on-recruiter-sites-raising-privacy-concerns\/","title":{"rendered":"Personal data of foreign teachers exposed on recruiter sites, raising privacy concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.koreatimes.co.kr\/southkorea\/society\/20260221\/personal-data-of-foreign-teachers-exposed-on-recruiter-sites-raising-privacy-concerns\">Personal data of foreign teachers exposed on recruiter sites, raising privacy concerns<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.koreatimes.co.kr\/southkorea\/society\/20260221\/personal-data-of-foreign-teachers-exposed-on-recruiter-sites-raising-privacy-concerns\">https:\/\/www.koreatimes.co.kr\/southkorea\/society\/20260221\/personal-data-of-foreign-teachers-exposed-on-recruiter-sites-raising-privacy-concerns<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-02-20 17:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.koreatimes.co.kr\">www.koreatimes.co.kr<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A screenshot of personal information belonging to Allison Hall, a 30-year-old American teaching English in Korea, is displayed on a recruiting website. The information includes personal details such as her birthday and marital status. Captured from the recruiting website <\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">In 2023, Allison Hall, a 30-year-old American teaching English in Korea, discovered that her friends\u2019 personal information had been posted online.<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">It was only the beginning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">The following year, Hall \u2014 then chair of the Native Teachers\u2019 Union under the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions \u2014 found similar posts exposing union members\u2019 personal details on a recruiting website. Private English language academies in Korea often rely on these sites to hire teachers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">However, teachers say that their information can be accessed without a login and readily downloaded, while lawyers argue that the practice may violate the Personal Information Protection Act. <\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">To test the system, Hall signed up using outdated information. Her details appeared that same day. <\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">Last year, a friend told Hall that another recruiter had begun posting even more sensitive data about teachers. She repeated the test and her information was posted within a week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">\u201cAll of my information was posted. My face, my name, my work experience, my age, my race, my gender, my home address, including the room number. Everything was exposed,\u201d Hall told The Korea Times. \u201cWhen I saw it, I froze in panic and felt a cold chill through my veins.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">The cases underscore growing concerns that some recruiter-run websites in Korea are publicly exposing foreign teachers\u2019 personal data \u2014 often without clear consent \u2014 under the guise of standard industry practice.<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">On one recruiting website, anyone can browse teacher profiles that include photographs, educational histories, birthdates, work records and even whether the teacher has tattoos. On another recruiter\u2019s web community, full access requires membership. Yet even publicly visible&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.koreatimes.co.kr\/southkorea\/society\/20260221\/personal-data-of-foreign-teachers-exposed-on-recruiter-sites-raising-privacy-concerns\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Personal data of foreign teachers exposed on recruiter sites, raising privacy concerns https:\/\/www.koreatimes.co.kr\/southkorea\/society\/20260221\/personal-data-of-foreign-teachers-exposed-on-recruiter-sites-raising-privacy-concerns Publish Date:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":215785,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/newsimg.koreatimes.co.kr\/2026\/02\/20\/b9c3efd7-24f2-4c72-8f20-75093368e93a.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-215784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-privacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215784"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215784"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":215786,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215784\/revisions\/215786"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}