Image Recognition
AFPBeijing: Firms using facial recognition in China will be required to obtain consent or legal permission before collecting personal information, draft regulations released Tuesday said, while stipulating the rules would not apply to some bodies. China is one of the most surveilled societies on Earth, with thousands of CCTV cameras scattered across cities and facial recognition technology widely used in everything from day-to-day law enforcement to political repression. It must also not be used to "endanger national security, harm public interests", or "disrupt social order", the regulations said. But, it stipulated, the rules would not apply to those "not required by laws and administrative regulations to obtain personal consent". A number of top Chinese facial recognition and surveillance firms have faced sanctions by the United States for their alleged role in repression.