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Dec 22 2025 There’s so much stolen data in the world, South Korea will require face scans to buy a SIM

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SK Telecom's epic infosec fail will cost it another $1.5 billion South Korea's government on Friday announced it will require local mobile carriers to verify the identity of new customers with facial recognition scans, in the hope of reducing scams.... [...]

Posted by Simon Sharwood on Mon 22 December 2025 in The Register.

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