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Privacy rules need to be eased to promote AI, key South Korean official says

By Choonsik Yoo ( March 20, 2025, 09:40 GMT | Insight) -- South Korea possesses a large amount of high-quality data, including medical information secured under its highly centralized national health insurance system, but it needs to further ease privacy regulations for AI developers to utilize it more freely, a top AI policy official said. Yeom Jae-ho, the highest private-sector official in the country’s top AI policy coordination organization, also said during a conference that South Korea should adopt a strategy of focusing on commercializing secondary AI applications instead of trying to compete with hyper-scale companies dominating in big cloud services and foundational technologies.South Korea possesses a large amount of high-quality data, including medical information secured under its highly centralized national health insurance system, but it needs to further ease privacy regulations for AI developers to utilize it more freely, a top AI policy official said....

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