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You Will Soon Be Able To Pay Your Subway Fare With Your Face in China (scmp.com)

Posted by msmash on from the expanding-reach dept.

China has led the world in adoption of smartphone-based mobile payments to the point where the central bank had to remind merchants not to discriminate against cash. The next phase of development may be to pay with your face. South Morning China Post: In Shenzhen, the local subway operator is testing various advanced technologies backed by the ultra-fast 5G network, including facial-recognition ticketing. At the Futian station, instead of presenting a ticket or scanning a QR bar code on their smartphones, commuters can scan their faces on a tablet-sized screen mounted on the entrance gate and have the fare automatically deducted from their linked accounts. Currently in a trial mode, the facial-recognition ticketing service could in future help improve the efficiency of handling the up to 5 million rides per day on the city's subway network. Shenzhen Metro did not elaborate when it will roll out the facial payment service. The introduction of facial recognition-and-payment services to the public transit system marks another step by China toward integrating facial recognition and other artificial intelligence-based technology into everyday life in the world's most populous nation. Consumers can already pay for fried chicken at KFC in China with its "Smile to Pay" facial recognition system, first introduced at an outlet in Hangzhou in January 2017.

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  1. Only if you can still ride it. by alvinrod · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Sure you can pay with your face, unless your social credit score is too low. Then it will probably just signal the authorities to come round you up and send you away. Eventually the camps will be done processing all of the Uyghurs and they'll need some new grist for the mill.

    1. Re:Only if you can still ride it. by drinkypoo · · Score: 4, Funny

      Sure you can pay with your face, unless your social credit score is too low. Then it will probably just signal the authorities to come round you up and send you away.

      Then you can pay with all of your body parts.

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      "You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
    2. Re:Only if you can still ride it. by dryriver · · Score: 3, Interesting

      They don't have to send you anywhere - ALL of China is being transformed into an open air prison. The Chinese Communist Party exists first and foremost to OPPRESS its citizens. You don't have to do that in a labor camp - these commie-gays probably get the same kick out of just surveilling 1 Billion people in everything they do every day. Well done Apple & Co. You moving your manufacturing Dollars to China has trapped 1 Billion people inside one big fucking Panopticon.

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      Why did the chicken cross the road? Because Elon Musk put an AI chip in its head.
  2. Re:Good climate... by omnichad · · Score: 3, Funny

    Wearing baklavas gets messy - especially if they're made with honey.