In 2019, police broke up a spying ring that secretly filmed hundreds of guests in hotel rooms using hidden cameras, charging people to watch the live-streamed footage.Įarlier this year, a Human Rights Watch report said South Korea’s position as the world’s most connected country had given rise to an epidemic of “digital sex crime” of men using tiny spy cameras to film women without consent. The country has previously experienced similar digital crimes. In 2018, two computer science students hired by the local Busan Ilbo newspaper managed to hack into the smart systems of a newly built residential building, gaining access to an internal camera.
South Korea says it will force construction companies to unlink smart-home systems for each apartment to prevent hackers accessing devices for a whole building through a single breach, as appears to have been the case.Ĭoncerns over vulnerabilities of smart homes have been raised in the past.
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