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South Korea will soon come up with a pilot project to use artificial intelligence for face recognition and thousands of CCTV cameras to track the movement of people infected with coronavirus, despite concerns about “privacy concerns”.
According to foreign media, the Telegraph reports, the nationally funded project in Bucheon, one of the most densely populated cities in the country on the outskirts of Seoul, will become operational in January, a city official told Reuters.
The system uses artificial intelligence algorithms and face recognition technology to analyze images collected by more than 10,820 CCTV cameras and track the movements of an infected person.
The plan from the city was submitted to the Ministry of Science and ICT (Information and Communication Technology) and given to Reuters by a parliamentary lawmaker critical of the project.
Governments around the world have turned to new technologies and expanded legal powers in an effort to stem the tide of COVID-19 infections.
China, Russia, India, Poland, and Japan, as well as several U.S. states, are among the governments that have developed or at least experimented with facial recognition systems to track COVID-19 patients.
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