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South Korea's first privacy guidelines for gen AI aim to erase legal uncertainty

By Jenny Lee ( August 6, 2025, 09:45 GMT | Insight) -- South Korea’s privacy regulator has unveiled the country’s first guidelines for handling personal data in the development and use of generative AI, aimed at clarifying how privacy law applies across the AI lifecycle. The guidelines target both large language model developers and service providers, emphasizing privacy-by-design, lawful data use and safeguards against data leaks and misuse.South Korea’s privacy regulator has unveiled the country’s first guidelines for handling personal data in the development and use of generative AI, setting out how privacy law applies from the earliest design stages through to ongoing operation....

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