Facial recognition technology spreads rapidly at the expense of privacy
A female customer has her face scanned by a face recognition system run by Alipay, the online payment service of Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba's Ant Financial, at a bookstore in Hangzhou city, in east China's Zhejiang Province. © AP
GUANGZHOU -- Facial recognition technology is reshaping the way consumers in China pay for their purchases, just as mobile payment has done in the past few years.
At stores, shoppers are increasingly purchasing goods with just a turn of their heads, while commuters "pay with their face" at subway stations.
