The Guardian, SHENZHENA Chinese wildlife park has sparked outcry after making visitors submit to facial recognition scanning, with one law professor taking it to court. “China’s use of facial recognition, across the board, without any notice or consent, is appalling,” privacy expert Ann Cavoukian said, when asked about the significance of the case, which several Chinese outlets indicated was a first. Cavoukian said that facial-recognition software is highly inaccurate and often results in a high percentage of false positives, pointing to a recent case in the UK where police use of facial recognition software was wrong 81 percent of the time. The park introduced facial recognition in July for annual pass holders and told those who did not register their biometric information by Oct. 17 that passes would be invalid, Beijing News reported. About 10,000 visitors hold the annual park passes.

Source: Taipei Times November 04, 2019 16:02 UTC