South Korea\'s Personal Information Protection Commission expanded pre-consultation support on public data scraping to include smaller firms and companies without mydata qualifications, as the right to request personal data transfers nears rollout. The commission said scraping would not be blocked across the board from Aug. 20, and existing services can continue while public agencies and businesses move in stages to safer transfer methods.

Korea Credit Information, a credit rating firm for sole proprietors, will supply Shinhan Bank with data that can track sales and purchase flows for small merchants. The company said the dataset is based on the National Tax Service\'s Hometax and is designed to analyse both sales and purchases to identify actual business cash flow. Shinhan Bank plans to review ways to use the data, the company said.