{"id":1115242,"date":"2021-12-13T16:14:35","date_gmt":"2021-12-13T21:14:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1115242"},"modified":"2021-12-13T16:14:42","modified_gmt":"2021-12-13T21:14:42","slug":"south-korea-will-test-facial-recognition-tech-to-track-people-infected-with-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/south-korea-will-test-facial-recognition-tech-to-track-people-infected-with-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"South Korea Will Test Facial Recognition Tech To Track People Infected With COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsouth-korea-will-test-facial-recognition-tech-to-track-people-infected-with-covid-19%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1115242&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Bucheon, a city in South Korea, is planning to test a facial recognition system which is built on data from 10,000 surveillance cameras to track those infected with COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe system will be tested in January in Bucheon, a metropolitan area of 800,000 people on the edge of Seoul, the country\u2019s capital. City officials hope the system can help trace the recent movements of people who test positive, their interactions with other people and whether masks were worn,\u201d reported <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/12\/13\/world\/asia\/south-korea-facial-recognition-coronavirus.html\">The New York Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This system was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nia.or.kr\/site\/nia_kor\/ex\/bbs\/View.do?cbIdx=78336&amp;bcIdx=23008&amp;parentSeq=23008\">approved<\/a> in February by the federal Ministry of Science and Information and Communications Technology.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFacial recognition has its limitations. The technology has struggled to identify people who are wearing masks. The huge amount of data required to identify individuals in large populations had also stymied engineers. To make such a system work, authorities must generally have a large database of citizens\u2019 photos for the technology to draw on, raising privacy concerns,\u201d the Times added. \u201cThe Bucheon plan seeks to address such concerns, though the details made public are limited. A person\u2019s consent must be obtained before the system may access his or her information, the proposal said, and the data would be provided only to quarantine authorities. It was not clear whether the system would make use of a national or regional database of photos of citizens, or just a local one.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>South Korea isn\u2019t the first country to use facial recognition technology as part of their COVID response. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-china-health-moscow-technology-idUSKBN20F1RZ\">Russia<\/a> used similar systems to enforce quarantine restrictions on their citizens.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMoscow is using facial recognition technology to ensure people ordered to remain at home or at their hotels under coronavirus quarantine do so, the mayor of the Russian capital said on Friday,\u201d reported <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-china-health-moscow-technology-idUSKBN20F1RZ\">Reuters<\/a> in February 2020.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCompliance with the regime is constantly monitored, including with the help of facial recognition systems and other technical measures,\u201d wrote Sergei Sobyanin, the mayor of Moscow, on his website.<\/p>\n<p>The subject of facial recognition software is particularly controversial, especially when it comes to matters of privacy. In November, Facebook even <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/facebook-shutting-down-facial-recognition-system-citing-societal-concerns\">announced<\/a> that it would be shutting down its facial recognition system, citing \u201csocietal concerns\u201d made worse by the fact that \u201cregulators have yet to provide clear rules.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re shutting down the Face Recognition system on Facebook,\u201d the company announced in a <a href=\"https:\/\/about.fb.com\/news\/2021\/11\/update-on-use-of-face-recognition\/\">blog post<\/a>. \u201cPeople who\u2019ve opted in will no longer be automatically recognized in photos and videos and we will delete more than a billion people\u2019s individual facial recognition templates.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While acknowledging that facial recognition technology can be a \u201cpowerful tool,\u201d Facebook stated that \u201cthe many specific instances where facial recognition can be helpful need to be weighed against growing concerns about the use of this technology as a whole.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The potentially invasive use cases for facial recognition have become increasingly clear on the international stage. A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/report-china-testing-emotion-detection-software-on-uyghur-muslims-like-rats-in-laboratories\">bombshell report<\/a> from the BBC in May, for example, indicated that the Chinese Communist government has been testing an artificial intelligence (AI) emotion-detection camera system on Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang.<\/p>\n<p>A software engineer who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/technology-57101248\">claimed<\/a> to have installed this facial and emotion detection system in police stations in the province home to 12 million ethnic minority Uyghurs said, \u201cThe Chinese government use Uyghurs as test subjects for various experiments just like rats are used in laboratories.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"> member<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bucheon, a city in South Korea, is planning to test a facial recognition system which is built on data from 10,000 surveillance cameras to track those infected with COVID-19.\u201cThe system will be tested in January in Bucheon, a metropolitan area of 800,000 people on the edge of Seoul, the country\u2019s capital. City officials hope the system can help trace the recent movements of people who test positive, their interactions with other people and whether masks were worn,\u201d reported The New York Times.This system was approved in February by the federal Ministry of Science and Information and Communications Technology.\u00a0\u201cFacial recognition has its limitations. The technology has struggled to identify people who are wearing masks. The huge amount of data required to identify individuals in large populations had also stymied engineers. To make such a system work, authorities must generally have a large database of citizens\u2019 photos for the technology to draw on, raising privacy concerns,\u201d the Times added. \u201cThe Bucheon plan seeks to address such concerns, though the details made public are limited. A person\u2019s consent must be obtained before the system may access his or her information, the proposal said, and the data would be provided only to quarantine authorities. It was not clear whether the system would make use of a national or regional database of photos of citizens, or just a local one.\u201dSouth Korea isn\u2019t the first country to use facial recognition technology as part of their COVID response. Russia used similar systems to enforce quarantine restrictions on their citizens.\u201cMoscow is using facial recognition technology to ensure people ordered to remain at home or at their hotels under coronavirus quarantine do so, the mayor of the Russian capital said on Friday,\u201d reported Reuters in February 2020.\u201cCompliance with the regime is constantly monitored, including with the help of facial recognition systems and other technical measures,\u201d wrote Sergei Sobyanin, the mayor of Moscow, on his website.The subject of facial recognition software is particularly controversial, especially when it comes to matters of privacy. In November, Facebook even announced that it would be shutting down its facial recognition system, citing \u201csocietal concerns\u201d made worse by the fact that \u201cregulators have yet to provide clear rules.\u201d\u201cWe\u2019re shutting down the Face Recognition system on Facebook,\u201d the company announced in a blog post. \u201cPeople who\u2019ve opted in will no longer be automatically recognized in photos and videos and we will delete more than a billion people\u2019s individual facial recognition templates.\u201dWhile acknowledging that facial recognition technology can be a \u201cpowerful tool,\u201d Facebook stated that \u201cthe many specific instances where facial recognition can be helpful need to be weighed against growing concerns about the use of this technology as a whole.\u201dThe potentially invasive use cases for facial recognition have become increasingly clear on the international stage. A bombshell report from the BBC in May, for example, indicated that the Chinese Communist government has been testing an artificial intelligence (AI) emotion-detection camera system on Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang.A software engineer who claimed to have installed this facial and emotion detection system in police stations in the province home to 12 million ethnic minority Uyghurs said, \u201cThe Chinese government use Uyghurs as test subjects for various experiments just like rats are used in laboratories.\u201dThe Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a member.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1115242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1115242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1115242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1115242\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1115242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1115242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1115242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}