South Korea installs 10,820 cameras to monitor people infected with COVVI-19

The world cannot attack Covid-19 with the same speed and the results are in sight.New strategies are necessary.Thus, among the different ways of dealing with the pandemic, the proposal of South Korea appears as one of the most invasive.It's a bit like Big Brother, but real life, in Korean daily life.

The city of Bucheon, located in the north of the country and with a population of nearly 900,000 inhabitants, is preparing a project that will use artificial intelligence and facial recognition technologies to monitor the movements of people infected with the new coronavirus.

According to information from Reuters, this test was funded by national funds and will start in January.He will use the more than 10,820 video surveillance cameras (CCTV) distributed throughout the city for its implementation.

Will it be possible to use cameras to monitor people infected by COVID-19 in Europe?

Although on the Asian continent, it is a long -standing practice for citizen surveillance, the truth is that currently, a use of facial recognition in Europe is unthinkable.

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However, this Korean pilot test aims to monitor the movements of infected people and their contacts.In addition, this system will also monitor the use of the mask and the place where these people move.Basically, the objective is to reduce the work of the location team that tries to discover the possible contagion of an infected person.

South Korea has an aggressive monitoring system, where you are not only asked with whom you have been or where, but credit card files and personal mobile phone location are also collected to find out howA positive tested person is collected.may have taken.This use of street cameras and facial recognition is an additional step.

Reading the infected face

The facial recognition system can locate up to 10 people in the space of five to 10 minutes, thus reducing the time required for manual work, which requires about 30 minutes to one hour to locate a single person, describes the documenttest.

In Europe, the European Parliament called for the ban on automatic facial recognition in public spaces, and last April, the first AI law was adopted, prohibiting the use of facial recognition systems in spacespublic.

However, there are some exceptions, such as "specific and imminent terrorist threat" or "detect, locate, identify or continue an author or suspect in serious crime".These exceptions have been criticized by digital rights organizations and are currently being revised.

In the rest of the world, this practice seems to be more and more popular.Several governments use new technologies to try to contain the wave of infections by COVVI-19.China, Russia, India, Poland and Japan, as well as several American states are among the governments that have implemented or at least experienced facial recognition systems to detect patients with COVID-19, according toA March report by Columbia Law School of New York.