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Pay with your face: 100m Chinese switch from smartphones

Facial recognition technology spreads rapidly at the expense of privacy

TAKASHI KAWAKAMI and YUSUKE HINATA, Nikkei staff writers
October 26, 2019 03:07 JST

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.

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