This will make it easier for the Chinese government to track mobile phone and internet users.
China uses facial recognition technology for everything from supermarket checkouts to surveillance to financial transactions.
Many Chinese social media users reacted to the move.
While some consumers embraced the technology, some cited concerns over privacy and data being sold or leaked.
Even though this is coming too late, I support it, another said.
We just want to live in a society where our information is safe.
Why is it so difficult?, questioned one user.
People are being more and more strictly monitored, one user of the Sina Weibo microblogging website said.
What are they [the government] afraid of?
Reacting to mobile phone users submitting to face scans, one commentator said: I will not.
My number has already been sold and now my face will be too?
Another said: hey leave us with some privacy.
There is not even a little space for freedom.
You cannot say what you want or choose what you want, another said.
This lawsuit in China was one of its first cases over facial recognition technology.
source: www.techworm.net
