{"id":8481,"date":"2019-09-04T14:08:37","date_gmt":"2019-09-04T05:08:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/sep\/04\/smile-to-pay-chinese-shoppers-turn-to-facial-payment-technology"},"modified":"2019-09-04T14:08:37","modified_gmt":"2019-09-04T05:08:37","slug":"smile-to-pay-chinese-shoppers-turn-to-facial-payment-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=8481","title":{"rendered":"Smile-to-pay: Chinese shoppers turn to facial payment technology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New technology is rolling out across the country, despite concerns over privacy<\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s shoppers are increasingly purchasing goods with just a turn of their heads as the country embraces facial payment technology.<\/p>\n<p>In a country where mobile payment is already one of the most advanced in the world, customers can make a purchase simply by posing in front of point-of-sale (POS) machines equipped with cameras, after linking an image of their face to a digital payment system or bank account.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/sep\/04\/smile-to-pay-chinese-shoppers-turn-to-facial-payment-technology\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New technology is rolling out across the country, despite concerns over privacyChina\u2019s shoppers are increasingly purchasing goods with just a turn of their heads as the country embraces facial payment technology.In a country where mobile payment is alr&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"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-8481","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\/8481","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\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8481"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8482,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8481\/revisions\/8482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}