Nov 15: facial recognition monitoring of employees violating privacy laws, PIPC plans to investigate leak of Itaewon victim names

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Nov 15: facial recognition monitoring of employees violating privacy laws, PIPC plans to investigate leak of Itaewon victim names


Korea's National Human Rights Commission ruled that managing employee's commuting by using facial recognition devices violated their right to decide on personal information. The local government in Gyeonggi-do had been using facial recognition to check commuting for faculty members checking in/out as they argued that handwritten/fingerprint methods of commuting confirmation was not accurate, to prevent unjust requests of overtime pay. However, due to not providing an alternative means, it was ruled that the 'right to decide on personal information' was violated, as part of Korea's employee-monitoring laws


Korea's Personal Information Protection Commission (PIPC) announced that they intend to launch an investigation into whether privacy laws were breached when on internet media outlet leaked a list of victims in the Itaewon disaster last month. Although in past disasters, the government and media had also reported the real names of the deceased, Director Kim of Disaster and Safety Management stated that the recent Itaewon disaster is different in that victims were identified quickly (rather than a list of missing persons needing to be made). Disclosing information (the names) without consent of the bereaved family may therefore be an unjustified infringement of privacy rights. 

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