{"id":11731,"date":"2019-12-02T14:55:11","date_gmt":"2019-12-02T05:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/dec\/02\/china-brings-in-mandatory-facial-recognition-for-mobile-phone-users"},"modified":"2019-12-02T14:55:11","modified_gmt":"2019-12-02T05:55:11","slug":"china-brings-in-mandatory-facial-recognition-for-mobile-phone-users","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=11731","title":{"rendered":"China brings in mandatory facial recognition for mobile phone users"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ministry claims change will \u2018protect the legitimate rights and interest of citizens in cyberspace\u2019 but critics say it\u2019s dystopian<\/p>\n<p>All mobile phone users in China registering new SIM cards must submit to facial recognition scans, according to a new rule that went into effect across the country on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The guidelines, first issued in September, require telecoms companies to deploy \u201cartificial intelligence and other technical methods\u201d to check the identities of people registering SIM cards. All physical stores in the country have had until 1 December to begin implementing the new standards.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/dec\/02\/china-brings-in-mandatory-facial-recognition-for-mobile-phone-users\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ministry claims change will \u2018protect the legitimate rights and interest of citizens in cyberspace\u2019 but critics say it\u2019s dystopianAll mobile phone users in China registering new SIM cards must submit to facial recognition scans, according to a new rule &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,58,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-technology","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11731"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11732,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11731\/revisions\/11732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}