South Korea's Personal Information Protection Commission announced a research group aimed at examining the impacts of biometric information collection and use. The group was created in the wake of recent developments with artificial intelligence-powered technologies that incorporate biometrics. The PIPC said, "Biometric information can identify individuals by itself (uniqueness) and cannot be changed (immutability), so it has a greater ripple effect when misused, abused, or leaked than other personal information." The group's goal is to create a regulatory framework for biometrics based on the results of its research.