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South Korea to allow more flexible use of pseudonymized data for AI development

By Wooyoung Lee ( April 1, 2026, 07:31 GMT | Insight) -- South Korea's Personal Information Protection Commission has revised its guidelines for generating pseudonymized datasets to make data use more flexible for AI development and updates. The sweeping revisions aim to address longstanding complaints from data controllers over unclear and cumbersome procedures for data pseudonymization.Companies developing artificial intelligence services will have more flexible guidelines on the data pseudonymization process, as South Korea’s privacy regulator overhauls its guidelines for processing pseudonymized data to better reflect real-world AI development practices....

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