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Incident 441: Korea Developed ID Screening System Using Airport Travelers' Data without Consent

Description: Korean government's development of immigration screening system involving real-time facial recognition used airport travelers' data which was supplied by the Ministry of Justice without consent.

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Alleged: unnamed Korean companies developed an AI system deployed by Korean Ministry of Justice and Korean Ministry of Science and Information and Communication Technology, which harmed travelers in Korean airports.

Incident Stats

Incident ID
441
Report Count
5
Incident Date
2019-06-01
Editors
Khoa Lam
Applied Taxonomies
MIT

MIT Taxonomy Classifications

Machine-Classified
Taxonomy Details

Risk Subdomain

A further 23 subdomains create an accessible and understandable classification of hazards and harms associated with AI
 

2.1. Compromise of privacy by obtaining, leaking or correctly inferring sensitive information

Risk Domain

The Domain Taxonomy of AI Risks classifies risks into seven AI risk domains: (1) Discrimination & toxicity, (2) Privacy & security, (3) Misinformation, (4) Malicious actors & misuse, (5) Human-computer interaction, (6) Socioeconomic & environmental harms, and (7) AI system safety, failures & limitations.
 
  1. Privacy & Security

Entity

Which, if any, entity is presented as the main cause of the risk
 

Human

Timing

The stage in the AI lifecycle at which the risk is presented as occurring
 

Post-deployment

Intent

Whether the risk is presented as occurring as an expected or unexpected outcome from pursuing a goal
 

Intentional

Incident Reports

Reports Timeline

Incident Occurrence+1
[Exclusive] The government handed over 170 million face photos of immigration to AI companies
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“The face is ‘one-of-a-kind’ information”… Civil society demands to stop 'AI identification tracking'
[Exclusive] The government handed over 170 million face photos of immigration to AI companies

[Exclusive] The government handed over 170 million face photos of immigration to AI companies

hani.co.kr

Seoul shares face biometrics of 170M travelers with private firms

Seoul shares face biometrics of 170M travelers with private firms

biometricupdate.com

“The face is ‘one-of-a-kind’ information”… Civil society demands to stop 'AI identification tracking'

“The face is ‘one-of-a-kind’ information”… Civil society demands to stop 'AI identification tracking'

hani.co.kr

Rights groups demand halt to South Korea facial recognition surveillance project

Rights groups demand halt to South Korea facial recognition surveillance project

biometricupdate.com

South Korea Is Giving Millions of Photos to Facial Recognition Researchers

South Korea Is Giving Millions of Photos to Facial Recognition Researchers

vice.com

[Exclusive] The government handed over 170 million face photos of immigration to AI companies
hani.co.kr · 2021
AI Translated

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…

Seoul shares face biometrics of 170M travelers with private firms
biometricupdate.com · 2021

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 face is ‘one-of-a-kind’ information”… Civil society demands to stop 'AI identification tracking'
hani.co.kr · 2021
AI Translated

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…

Rights groups demand halt to South Korea facial recognition surveillance project
biometricupdate.com · 2021

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…

South Korea Is Giving Millions of Photos to Facial Recognition Researchers
vice.com · 2021

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…

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