Key Points

• In early 2020, South Korea’s legislature made amendments to major laws in the area of data protection in order to, among others, promote the utilization of pseudonymized personal data.
• With these amendments, pseudonymized personal data can be processed, without consent from data subjects, for archiving purposes, scientific research purposes, or statistical purposes.
• Arguably, these amendments are largely inspired by the relevant provisions contained in the EU GDPR, although details differ between GDPR and South Korea’s amended statutes.
• One unique aspect of South Korea’s amended statutes is that they introduce a scheme under which designated agencies carry out the task of combining pseudonymized data that different entities possess.

中文翻译：

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如何在韩国取消识别个人数据：一个进化的故事

关键点

• 2020年初，韩国立法机关对数据保护领域的主要法律进行了修订，以期促进使用假名个人数据。
• 通过这些修改，可以出于存档目的，科学研究目的或统计目的而在未经数据主体同意的情况下处理假名化的个人数据。
• 可以说，这些修正案很大程度上是受欧盟GDPR中包含的相关规定的启发，尽管GDPR与韩国修订法规之间的细节有所不同。
• 韩国修订法规的一个独特方面是，它们引入了一种方案，指定机构在该方案下执行合并不同实体拥有的假名数据的任务。