{"id":7527,"date":"2021-04-28T15:55:13","date_gmt":"2021-04-28T15:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=7527"},"modified":"2021-04-28T15:55:13","modified_gmt":"2021-04-28T15:55:13","slug":"increasing-use-of-facial-recognition-technology-in-china-faces-backlash-from-city-governments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=7527","title":{"rendered":"Increasing use of facial recognition technology in China faces backlash from city governments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: South China Morning PostAfter China\u2019s annual Consumer Protection Gala in March singled out companies for the\u00a0misuse of facial recognition, several cities in China are tightening the enforcement of\u00a0related regulations, as the technology has become\u00a0widely used for such things as dispensing toilet paper and collecting garbage.In the city of Ningbo in eastern Zhejiang province, the local market regulator recently fined three property firms for \u201cillegally acquiring customers\u2019 facial information\u201d.The companies, local\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/tech\/tech-trends\/article\/3131442\/increasing-use-facial-recognition-technology-china-faces-backlash\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: South China Morning PostAfter China\u2019s annual Consumer Protection Gala in March singled out companies for the\u00a0misuse of facial recognition, several cities in China are tightening the enforcement of\u00a0related regulations,&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":7528,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7527"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7527\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}