South Korean president tells regulators to make privacy failures costlier
By Jenny Lee ( July 16, 2026, 09:36 GMT | Insight) -- President Lee Jae Myung urged South Korean regulators to make privacy failures more expensive than preventing them and to take a more assertive role in finding cybersecurity weaknesses before attackers do, offering a detailed view of the principles likely to guide his government's enforcement policy.South Korean President Lee Jae Myung urged regulators to make privacy failures more expensive than preventing them and to take a more assertive role in finding cybersecurity weaknesses before attackers do, offering a detailed view of the principles likely to guide his government's enforcement policy....
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