( July 6, 2026, 05:14 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: South Korea’s privacy regulator has proposed expanding individuals’ right to request transfers of their personal data to cover the education and employment sectors, with draft amendments open for public comment through Aug. 10. The Personal Information Protection Commission said the proposal would extend the MyData framework beyond healthcare, telecommunications and energy, allowing people to direct universities and employment-information providers to transfer records such as enrollment, grades, graduation, job-search and employment information to designated institutions. The regulator said the changes could enable services such as personalized job matching by allowing job seekers to use academic and career data without separately obtaining official documents. The draft also shifts certain record-keeping and disclosure obligations to intermediary institutions to reduce compliance burdens on data holders.Statement is attached (in Korean)....
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