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\"Newsis\"\/ Newsis <\/p>\n

Face recognition will be mandatory when setting up a new smartphone starting Tuesday, local media reported.<\/p>\n

Under the new rule, new users must verify their identity through facial recognition when they buy a new smartphone, whether online or in person, according to relevant authorities.<\/p>\n

The requirement applies to the country\u2019s three major mobile carriers, SK Telecom, KT and LG Uplus, as well as low-cost mobile carriers.<\/p>\n

Previously, users were required only to present an identification card to activate a smartphone. Under the revised system, an additional step has been added that requires users to take a photo of their face through the PASS authentication app.<\/p>\n

The government said the measure is aimed at preventing crimes such as voice phishing and smishing that are often carried out using smartphones activated with stolen or forged identification.<\/p>\n

Following a pilot program involving 43 low-cost mobile carriers and the three major operators, authorities plan to expand the system to all low-cost mobile carriers starting March 23 next year.<\/p>\n

Addressing concerns about the collection or theft of facial data, authorities and telecom operators said facial information would not be stored or used for any purpose other than identity verification.<\/p>\n

shinjh@heraldcorp.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Newsis Face recognition will be mandatory when setting up a new smartphone starting Tuesday, local media reported. Under…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":247369,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[257],"tags":[5402,18,19,17,5403,5399,5398,5404,279,5400,5401,82,5397,5406,5407,5405],"class_list":{"0":"post-247368","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mobile","8":"tag-asia-news","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-k-pop","13":"tag-koreaherald","14":"tag-korean-news","15":"tag-kpop","16":"tag-mobile","17":"tag-south-korea-news","18":"tag-south-korea-news-in-english","19":"tag-technology","20":"tag-the-korea-herald","21":"tag-5406","22":"tag-5407","23":"tag-5405"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115768327499023904","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247368\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}