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Comment on China bans compulsory facial recognition and its use in private spaces like hotel rooms

klu9@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

Chinese fintech giant Alipay has for some years now had the “Smile to Pay” system: Alipay users can pay for something by just smiling into the camera in an Alipay “Smile to Pay” POS terminal. IIRC KFC was the first place to have it.

In China, many operators of public toilets seek to prevent theft of toilet paper (I shit you not 😉) by having some kind of rationed dispenser (a certain user can only receive a certain amount of paper in a certain amount of time) or a vending machine.

Public toilet + toilet paper vending machine + “Smile to Pay” = facial recognition in toilets.

In fact, I think a few wanted fugitives have been caught (out?) by the cameras on toilet paper vending machines.

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pycorax@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

Chinese fintech giant Alipay has for some years now had the “Smile to Pay” system: Alipay users can pay for something by just smiling into the camera in an Alipay “Smile to Pay” POS terminal. IIRC KFC was the first place to have it.

I thought you were kidding but who the hell thought this ridiculous concept was a good idea? Putting aside the security implications, did no one see how absurd it is?

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