South Korea, trust
MyData, citizen-directed data portability
South Korea's MyData policy gives people a route to request and direct the transfer of personal data between services, with the Personal Information Protection Commission describing the scheme as a way to give people control over data portability after the March 2023 legal amendment.
2,023 year, year of the legal amendment establishing the data portability right, 2023. Personal Information Protection Commission, MyData policy notice, retrieved 2026-08-30.
The move, and what it needed
The state gives people a legal route to move their own data between providers, shifting data access from a private platform choice toward a user-directed right.
Preconditions
- A privacy authority able to define consent and portability rules
- Interoperable data formats and secure transfer channels
- Providers willing and able to respond to a person's authorised request
Limits: A portability right shows a legal design for user control, not whether people understand it, use it safely or receive better services. The policy notice describes the legal framework and is not an independent assessment of outcomes.
This record describes what South Korea delivered. It is linked to Trust in public institutions because no comparable dataset measures that capability. It does not affect the score or confidence.
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