# Notify individuals about the use of personal data in AI recommendations and decisions

- **Record type**: Obligation
- **Instrument**: PDPC Advisory Guidelines on Use of Personal Data in AI Recommendation and Decision Systems
- **Jurisdiction**: Singapore
- **Category**: transparency
- **Binding**: Yes
- **Provision**: Advisory guidelines, section on notification obligation

## In brief

Notify individuals about the use of personal data in AI recommendations and decisions is a legal requirement under the PDPC AI advisory guidelines in Singapore (Advisory guidelines, section on notification obligation). Organisations should inform individuals that AI systems use their personal data, the purposes, the relevant features and how they influence decisions, proportionate to the impact on the individual.

## What the duty requires

Organisations should inform individuals that AI systems use their personal data, the purposes, the relevant features and how they influence decisions, proportionate to the impact on the individual.

## What an organisation does about it

Add AI-specific disclosures to privacy notices and in-product notifications.

## Controls that meet this duty

- AI interaction and use disclosure notices (satisfies): https://aipolicytracker.org/controls/ai-interaction-and-use-disclosure
- Privacy and data-protection controls for AI (supports): https://aipolicytracker.org/controls/privacy-and-data-protection-for-ai

## Parent instrument

- PDPC Advisory Guidelines on Use of Personal Data in AI Recommendation and Decision Systems
  - Record: https://aipolicytracker.org/policies/singapore-pdpc-ai-advisory-guidelines
  - Context file: https://aipolicytracker.org/policies/singapore-pdpc-ai-advisory-guidelines.md

## Provenance

- **Permanent id**: AIPT-OBL-0059 (https://aipolicytracker.org/id/AIPT-OBL-0059; never changes or gets reused)
- **Record page**: https://aipolicytracker.org/obligations/singapore-pdpc-ai-notification
- **Official source**: https://www.pdpc.gov.sg/guidelines-and-consultation/2024/02/advisory-guidelines-on-use-of-personal-data-in-ai-recommendation-and-decision-systems
- **Provision**: Advisory guidelines, section on notification obligation
- **Review status**: verified
- **Confidence**: medium
- **Facts last confirmed**: 2026-09-26
- **Confirmed by**: Bhaskar Bhatt (see https://aipolicytracker.org/reviewers)
- **Retrieved**: 2026-11-08
- **Licence**: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
- **Cite as**: AIPolicyTracker (2026). "Notify individuals about the use of personal data in AI recommendations and decisions (PDPC AI advisory guidelines)" [AIPT-OBL-0059, verified 26 September 2026 by Bhaskar Bhatt]. https://aipolicytracker.org/id/AIPT-OBL-0059 (accessed 8 November 2026).

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