The decision to mandate QR codes to register visitors’ identities came after authorities struggled to trace people who had visited a number of nightclubs and bars at the centre of a virus outbreak last month after much of the information on handwritten visitor logs was found to be false or incomplete.
The person’s information will be logged in a database kept by the Social Security Information Service for four weeks, before it is automatically deleted, according to South Korea’s Ministry of Health and Welfare. Seongdong-gu, a district in the capital city of Seoul, established QR code systems at 172 facilities, according to the district office.
Nope I’d stay home
We need some PHI QR-Code scanning! 'Quick! Check my diabetes status!' This could be an interesting new dating experience.
Sounds like a human blockchain is being created