Definition
A legal change that allows companies to use people's personal data to train AI systems without first getting their explicit consent, shifting the decision about what counts as acceptable use from law to regulator discretion. South Korea's parliament is moving to amend its main privacy law this way, a significant departure from stricter consent-based privacy regimes.
Why it matters
This kind of exemption directly affects how much personal data global AI developers can legally use for training in a given market, and signals privacy law may bend further to accommodate AI development in other jurisdictions too.