It has been confirmed that the government has handed over 170 million domestic and foreign face photos to private companies for the purpose of developing artificial intelligence (AI) to be used in immigration screening. Face, which is biome…

The South Korean government shared roughly 170 million face images of citizens and resident foreign nationals with the private sector without their consent to be used in training and testing biometric algorithms, according to a recent Minis…

The Ministry of Justice and the Ministry of Science and ICT (Ministry of Science and Technology) are promoting a project to build an 'artificial intelligence identification tracking system' using facial photos of Koreans and foreigners, and…

A project intended to develop an artificial intelligence-powered facial recognition system to be used for airport immigration purposes, spearheaded by South Korea’s Ministry of Justice and the Ministry of Science and Information and Communi…

The South Korean Ministry of Justice has provided more than 100 million photos of foreign nationals who travelled through the country’s airports to facial recognition companies without their consent, according to attorneys with the non-gove…