{"id":365346,"date":"2025-12-23T10:29:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T10:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/365346\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T10:29:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T10:29:12","slug":"face-recognition-required-to-set-up-all-new-smartphones-from-tuesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/365346\/","title":{"rendered":"Face recognition required to set up all new smartphones from Tuesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>       <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/news-p.v1.20251223.d781bfa2ab5046c2b1c7e209f342336f_P1.jpg\" alt=\"Newsis\"\/>     Newsis  <\/p>\n<p>Face recognition will be mandatory when setting up a new smartphone starting Tuesday, local media reported.<\/p>\n<p>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<p>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<p>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<p>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<p>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<p>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<p>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&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":365347,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[343,344,340,339,345,165,341,342,74,338,347,348,346],"class_list":["post-365346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mobile","tag-asia-news","tag-k-pop","tag-koreaherald","tag-korean-news","tag-kpop","tag-mobile","tag-south-korea-news","tag-south-korea-news-in-english","tag-technology","tag-the-korea-herald","tag-347","tag-348","tag-346"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=365346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365346\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/365347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}