Business Improvement Exception (as Applied to AI Development)
Is this legally binding?
Guidance. Voluntary guidance. Best practice, not obligation, until a contract or a regulator cites it.
GUIDANCE interpreting binding PDPA First Schedule Part 5: allows use without consent of already-collected personal data to improve existing or develop new products, services, methods or processes, e.g. recommendation engines, job assignment systems, HR candidate-matching, subject to statutory conditions.
From the source
“Improving, enhancing existing goods and services or developing new goods or services”
paras 4.2(a), 5.1-5.4
What this connects to
2 relations. Official relations are the ones the source documents state; anything marked GAGE analysis is our reading, not an agency's.
Part of1
- ObligationCollection, Use and Disclosure Without Consent (s 17; Schedules)Binding
Guideline interprets binding PDPA provision; guideline itself is not legally binding
Cited by1
- SectionPart III, Using Personal Data in AI System Development, Testing and MonitoringGuidance
Structural decomposition of the source instrument
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