Editing Shincheonji Church of Jesus (section)

===Personal data breach===
Shincheonji is educating its members on preparations and behavioral guidelines before holidays, including instructing them to secretly check their family members' phones. Members are told to check their parents' phones for contacts, recent call logs, text messages, and whether there are any group chats on KakaoTalk excluding them. However, accessing someone's phone or extracting information without their consent constitutes a violation of privacy (Information and Communications Network Act). Since privacy violation laws do not include family exceptions, even family members can face criminal charges for unauthorized access to someone's phone. Shincheonji's privacy violations don't end there. Detailed information about prospective recruits—such as their names, ages, social security numbers, contact information, addresses, family details, relatives, friends, and personality traits—is also shared and managed in group chats. This is another example of illegal activities involving personal data breaches.<ref>{{cite news|last=Oh|first=Myung Ock|title=이단 신천지 추석명절대비교육 중 "가족 핸드폰 몰래 훔쳐보라" 교육|trans-title=Shincheonji Cult Instructs Members to Secretly Check Family Phones During Chuseok Holiday Training|url=http://www.churchheresy.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=1462|access-date=28 August 2024|newspaper=Church and Heresy|date=27 August 2024}}</ref>