( September 16, 2026, 04:36 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: Wrtn Technologies, Tesla Korea, DeepSeek, OpenAI and Nike have been told by South Korea’s privacy regulator to improve how they handle privacy inquiries and data-subject rights after follow-up checks on companies that received weak scores in its 2025 privacy-policy assessment. The Personal Information Protection Commission said Wednesday Wrtn failed to respond to a rights-related inquiry, while Tesla Korea and DeepSeek replied to Korean users in English and Chinese, respectively, prompting the regultor to recommend improvements to their systems for receiving and processing such requests. OpenAI and Nike were separately found to have directed callers to email addresses for their domestic representatives but failed to respond to the resulting inquiries, leading the regulator to call for stronger oversight of complaint and consultation handling.Statement is attached (in Korean)....
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