South Korean Agencies Reportedly Shared Airport Travelers' Face Images with Companies to Train Immigration Facial Recognition System
Reporting in 2021 alleged that South Korea's Ministry of Justice shared roughly 170 million face images and related biometric data from Korean and foreign airport travelers with the Ministry of Science and Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and private companies for an AI identification and tracking system used in immigration screening. The data was reportedly used for AI training and algorithm testing without travelers' consent.
- Date it happened
- 2019-06-01
- Organisation involved
- Government of South Korea, South Korean Ministry of Justice, South Korean Ministry of Science and ICT, National IT Industry Promotion Agency
- Product, system or model
- AI identification and tracking system, Surveillance technology, Airport immigration facial recognition system, Biometric algorithm training datasets, Airport face biometric databases, Facial recogniti
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