#11 October Update 1 of 2

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Privacy

Hong Kong’s Privacy Commissioner noted LinkedIn paused training AI on local data following a previous inquiry about the practice:

The Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data, Ms Ada CHUNG Lai-ling, welcomes LinkedIn’s decision to pause any use of Hong Kong users’ personal data for training generative AI models for content creation. The PCPD will continue to follow up and monitor the situation to ensure that the personal data privacy of Hong Kong users is safeguarded.

Hong Kong’s privacy regulator had previously expressed concern over LinkedIn’s default use of user data for generative AI training purposes:

LinkedIn’s privacy policy update has aroused concerns of data protection authorities in other jurisdictions. The PCPD is also concerned about whether LinkedIn’s default opt-in setting for using users’ personal data to train generative AI models correctly reflects users’ choices. The PCPD has therefore written to LinkedIn to enquire into the matter.

South Korea’s privacy regulator issued guidance on autonomous vehicle video data collection.

South Korea’s privacy regulator published a guide on the rights of data subjects and automated decisions by AI. Important rights include the following:

If an automated decision has a significant impact on the rights or obligations of the data subject and the data subject rejects the decision, the company or organization must suspend the application of the decision and notify the data subject of the results of the action. In practice, it is also possible to reprocess the decision through human intervention and then notify the data subject of the results.

South Korea and France’s privacy regulators conducted the 3rd Korea-France AI Policy Council meeting of the year.

In this third meeting, information was exchanged on the main contents of the artificial intelligence risk assessment model that the Personal Information Protection Commission is currently developing and promoting, and the main contents of the Considerations for Deploying Generative AI (“How to Deploy Generative AI?”) that the Information Freedom Commission released last July. 

Healthcare

Singapore’s Ministry of Health, local universities and the Ministry of Digital Development and Information announced the creation of a Centre of AI in Medicine. Senior Minister of State Tan Kiat at the opening of the Centre said:

There is significant promise in the use of AI in healthcare – from discovering new therapeutics to improving treatment efficacy. For example, it took us half a century to understand the structures of a few hundred thousand proteins. With AI tools like AlphaFold, scientists have predicted the structures and interactions of over 600 million proteins in just a few years. This has revolutionised drug discovery. And we are just scratching at the surface of the potential of applying AI in this area.

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