Personal Information Protection Commission

Press Release

PIPC Chairperson to Attend the G7 Data Protection and Privacy Authorities Roundtable

- PIPC Chairperson Kyung Hee Song will attend the G7+Session to discuss AI privacy issues associated with agentic AI and smart glasses 

- Scheduled bilateral meetings with France and Argentina, and hosting an international symposium titled “The Trust-Innovation Nexus: Operationalizing Risk-Based AI and Data Governance”

June 26, 2026

(This is an unofficial translation of a press release, originally prepared in Korean.)

On June 25 and June 26, 2026, the Personal Information Protection Commission (PIPC) will attend the G7 Data Protection and Privacy Authorities (DPAs) Roundtable 2026 in Paris, France, to strengthen international cooperation on personal information protection and data governance in the era of AI.

G7 DPA Roundtable was established in 2021 on the occasion of the G7 Roundtable held in the United Kingdom. Under the leadership of the annual chair, the DPAs of the United States, Japan, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, and Canada gather annually for international cooperation, including information sharing, strategic exchanges, and seeking common positions on matters of shared interest. The Roundtable has focused on data free flow with trust (DFFT), emerging technologies, and enforcement cooperation.

The G7 DPA Roundtable 2026, under the presidency of the Commission Nationale de L’Informatique et des Libertés (CNIL), will focus on privacy issues associated with emerging technologies, including agentic AI and smart glasses, as well as children’s protection. Participating DPAs will discuss the need to jointly address data and privacy challenges and to promote international cooperation.

The PIPC has been invited to the G7 DPA Roundtable for two consecutive years, beginning with the 2025 G7 Roundtable in Ottawa, Canada. The G7 DPA Roundtable 2026 is also joined by international forums or organizations, including the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), the Asia Pacific Privacy Authorities Forum, the Global Privacy Assembly (GPA), and the Council of Europe (CoE), but the PIPC Korea is the only DPA to attend the G7+ Session. It is a meaningful testament to the PIPC’s active engagement and policy leadership in the global privacy community.

On June 26, 2026, Chairperson Kyung Hee Song will participate in the G7+Session on International Cooperation to share jurisdiction-specific policy trends and perspectives, discuss privacy issues arising from emerging technologies, including agentic AI and smart glasses, and discuss the need for joint responses and cooperation in the global privacy community.

During the G7+ Session, Chairperson Song will share Korea’s progress in implementing AI policies and the PIPC’s plan to shift toward a prevention-focused and risk-based privacy framework. Chairperson Song will highlight the need to establish trustworthy privacy norms in the context of a rapidly evolving technological landscape and emphasize the G7+ countries’ attention to and roles in promoting global joint response capabilities and collective resilience to emerging technologies.

On the margins of the G7 DPA Roundtable, the PIPC and the Korea Legislation Research Institute (KLRI) will co-host the AI & Privacy Symposium titled “The Trust-Innovation Nexus: Operationalizing Risk-Based AI and Data Governance” on June 25, 2026. The event is a follow-up to the Joint Statement on Building Trustworthy Data Governance Frameworks to Encourage Development of Innovative and Privacy-Protective AI, which was first adopted at a side event to the AI Action Summit in Paris in February 2025. At the Global Privacy Assembly (GPA) Seoul 2025, twenty data protection authorities signed the Joint Statement. 

This event is joined by DPAs from Singapore, the Netherlands, and Argentina, and AI and data policy experts from international organizations, including the OECD and UNESCO. 

The PIPC will also hold bilateral meetings with the CNIL and the Agencia de Acceso a la Información Pública (AAIP), Argentina, to facilitate the establishment of interoperable AI privacy norms. In addition, the PIPC will play a role in bridging capacity gaps among DPAs around the world. 

Chairperson Song said, “As AI and emerging technologies are rapidly advancing, international cooperation and joint responses have become more important than ever before to strike a balance between privacy protection and data use.” She added, “The PIPC will closely cooperate with the international community and actively contribute to establishing trustworthy global data governance through the G7+ leadership.” 

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