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Local South Korean Government’s Use of CCTV Footage Analysis via Facial Recognition to Track COVID Cases Raised Concerns about Privacy, Retention, and Potential Misuse
- Occurred
- Jan 1, 2022
- Published
- Dec 13, 2021
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
Bucheon government's use of facial recognition in analyzing CCTV footage, despite gaining wide public support, was scrutinized by privacy advocates and some lawmakers for collecting data without consent, and retaining and misusing data beyond pandemic needs.
Developers
- Unknown
Deployers
- Bucheon city government
Harmed parties
- Bucheon citizens
- Privacy
- Biometric data subjects
- General public
- General public of South Korea
Classification
Category confidence: 95%
Severity confidence: 90%
Rationale: Incident involves unauthorized data collection and retention concerns via facial recognition technology.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8