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Privacy watchdog recommends KakaoTalk, other 'super apps' to strengthen user data protection measures

Summary by The Korea Times
The privacy watchdog said Thursday it has recommended the country's five major mobile applications, including popular messaging service KakaoTalk, to improve measures in handling user information. The...

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[Digital Daily Reporter Jo Yoon-jung] The Personal Information Protection Commission (hereinafter referred to as the Personal Information Commission) announced on the 24th that it conducted a preliminary inspection of the five major super apps used by the majority of the public and recommended improvements to the protection of personal information transfer and sharing and excessive mandatory consent requirements. This inspection was conducted on…

Announcement of the results of preliminary inspection of 5 super apps “Personal information use consent procedures need to be reorganized” “Personal information must be transferred and shared under CPO control” [Herald Economy = Reporter Kwon Je-in] It is expected that a function to withdraw from individual services will be introduced in ‘super apps’ that provide various services at once, such as Naver and KakaoTalk. Since search, shopping, fina…

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연합뉴스-Yonhap News Agency broke the news in Korea, Republic of on Thursday, July 24, 2025.
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