Chinas facial recognition roll out reaches mobile phones, shops and homes – Financial World

Late on Sunday, the 1st of December 2019, China had imposed a new regulation that would require Chinese data carriers to scan faces of their users registering for new data services, a first-of-its-kind move that Beijing said was put into effect to crack down on frauds.

On top of that, following reveal of Sundays (December 1st) announcement, industry analysts were quoted saying that the rollout of Chinas facial recognition technology would mean millions of Chinese nationals would come under the recently introduced facial recognition technology, but the Chinese Ministry of Industry and Information Technology did not mention the names of companies appointed to carry out the services for telecom providers, however, since Chinas SenseTime and Megvii had been the leaders in facial recognition software across the globe, they would more likely to be appointed to provide network carriers with the services, suggested analysts.

In point of fact, Facial Recognition Technology in China went for a trial-run a year earlier, as its supermarkets, subway systems alongside airports had already been using facial recognition technology, while Chinese e-commerce behemoth, Alibaba Group Holdings had provided their customers with an option to pay using their faces at Hema supermarket chain and running a hotel in Hangzhou where its guests require facial recognition for an advanced level check-in.

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Chinas facial recognition roll out reaches mobile phones, shops and homes - Financial World