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South Korean privacy regulator pledges more probes for platform businesses, new guidelines for emerging technologies

By Jenny Lee
  • 05 Aug 2021 04:05
  • 05 Aug 2021 04:05
In marking the one-year anniversary of its founding, South Korea’s privacy regulator vowed to become a “first mover” in personal data protection and usage, unveiling new plans to probe platform businesses for misuse or leakage of data, and develop new guidelines for emerging technologies such as autonomous vehicles.

Yoon Jong-in, chairperson

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Jenny Lee

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Jenny joined MLex’s Seoul bureau in 2021 as a correspondent focusing on competition law and data privacy and security. Jenny received a Master’s degree from Northwestern University’s renowned Medill School of Journalism and worked for a number of news organizations in the US, including the Associated Press Television News, McClatchy and Voice of America, where she worked for almost three years in Washington DC. She returned to her native South Korea in 2019 as a reporter for Wired Korea.

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