Is Publicly Available Exception for GenAI Training Data legally binding?

Q: Is Publicly Available Exception for GenAI Training Data legally binding?

Publicly Available Exception for GenAI Training Data is consultation in Singapore. Proposed, not final. Read it, plan for it, and do not treat it as settled. GUIDANCE interpreting binding PDPA First Schedule Part 2: organisations may rely on the publicly available exception to collect personal data without consent via web-scraping to develop Generative AI Models, subject to the s 18 reasonableness requirement.

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Publicly Available Exception for GenAI Training Data

Is this legally binding?

Consultation. Proposed, not final. Read it, plan for it, and do not treat it as settled.

Proposed and not final. Nothing here can be enforced against you yet.

GUIDANCE interpreting binding PDPA First Schedule Part 2: organisations may rely on the publicly available exception to collect personal data without consent via web-scraping to develop Generative AI Models, subject to the s 18 reasonableness requirement.

From the source
“organisations may rely on the Publicly Available Exception to collect the data to develop a Generative AI Model.”
paras 3.1-3.3 (carried into final)

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What this connects to

3 relations. Official relations are the ones the source documents state; anything marked GAGE analysis is our reading, not an agency's.

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Guideline interprets binding PDPA provision; guideline itself is not legally binding
Concept'Publicly Available' Personal Data (s 2(1))Binding
Guideline interprets binding PDPA provision; guideline itself is not legally binding

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