> 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.

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> South Korea's privacy watchdog has slapped SK Telecom with a record โ‚ฉ134.5 billion ($97 million) fine after finding that the mobile giant left its network wide open to hackers through a catalog of bungles.

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