China drafts rules for using facial recognition data

By Agence France-Presse

Aug 09, 2023 12:14 am

BEIJING: Firms using facial recognition in China will be required to obtain consent or legal permission before collecting personal information, draft regulations released on Tuesday said, while stipulating that the rules would not apply to some bodies.

China is one of the most surveilled societies on Earth, with thousands of closed-circuit television cameras scattered across cities and facial-recognition technology widely used in everything from day-to-day law enforcement to political repression.

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