Personal Information Protection Commission Holds Relay Meeting with Industry Representatives

Goh Hak-su, Chairman of the Personal Information Protection Commission (seventh from the left in the front row), is taking a commemorative photo at a meeting with representatives of online platform companies held on the 16th at Naver's new headquarters in Bundang-gu, Seongnam-si, on the occasion of the amendment to the Personal Information Protection Act.

The Personal Information Protection Commission held a relay meeting with the industry ahead of the enforcement of the amended 'Personal Information Protection Act.'

On the 16th, as the first session of the relay meeting, the Personal Information Protection Commission held a meeting at Naver's new headquarters with 16 online platforms, including the Korea Internet Corporations Association and the Korea Online Shopping Association.

At the meeting, Han Ji-yoon, leader of the AI startup Upstage, proposed policies on 'AI development and personal information protection.' In particular, since concerns about the infringement of unspecified personal information persist during the process of building AI models in cloud environments and learning unstructured data, she called for preventive measures to ensure the reliability of AI utilization by preventing the exposure of sensitive information.

Leader Han emphasized, "Amid the ongoing boom in the generative AI market triggered by ChatGPT, it is a time when protective measures are required for sensitive information that may be leaked in cloud computing environments and large-scale data learning on which AI models are based."

The companies attending the meeting expressed expectations for the Personal Information Protection Commission's policy direction regarding the amendment of the 'Personal Information Protection Act' and the activation of the data economy, while sharing difficulties still encountered on the ground and proposing specific institutional improvement measures.

Regarding the newly introduced personal information transfer request right under this amendment, opinions were raised that it is necessary to specifically present the scope of information subject to transfer and the obligated transferors. There were also opinions that the requirements for pseudonymized information linkage need to be relaxed to promote the use of pseudonymized information, and clear guidance on appropriate pseudonymization levels is necessary.

Meanwhile, the amendment to the Personal Information Protection Act is scheduled to take effect on September 15. With the amendment, MyData, which was previously limited to certain fields such as public and financial sectors, will be expanded to all areas. A clear operational standard for mobile video information processing devices such as autonomous vehicles and drones will be established, creating a legal foundation suitable for new technologies and new industry environments.

Ko Hak-soo, chairman of the Personal Information Protection Commission, said, "Starting with today's meeting, we will listen to diverse opinions from various fields to specify subordinate statutes, minimizing corporate uncertainties, and also present a comprehensive action plan to create a new data economy based on public trust."

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