“When property management companies, schools and other organisations collect such information, you do not know how much they collected, how they store it or how they use it,” Lao said during a seminar held on September 23 at the China University of Political Science and Law, where participants discussed the misuse of facial recognition.
Lao said that the neighbourhood eventually decided to allow residents to continue to use their access cards to enter the community, but the facial recognition system was still installed. Not everyone in China gets that option, though, as facial recognition systems become more common in similar neighbourhoods around the country. And not all those neighbourhoods have a legal professional like Lao to advocate against the technology.
