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Bucheon COVID-19 facial recognition system

Incidents implicated systems

Incident 2761 Report
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

2022-01-01

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.

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Bucheon city government

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 276
    1 Report

    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

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Unknown

Incidents involved as Developer
  • Incident 276
    1 Report

    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

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Bucheon citizens

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 276
    1 Report

    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

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Entity

Privacy

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 276
    1 Report

    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

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Biometric data subjects

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 276
    1 Report

    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

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General public

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 276
    1 Report

    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

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General public of South Korea

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 276
    1 Report

    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

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Facial recognition systems

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 276
    1 Report

    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

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Biometric data processing systems

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 276
    1 Report

    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

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Entity

Surveillance technology

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 276
    1 Report

    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

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Entity

AI identification and tracking system

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 276
    1 Report

    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

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