China to expand damage claims for abuse of facial recognition in latest court directions

By Xu Yuan ( July 28, 2021, 07:27 GMT | Insight) -- Individuals that have suffered from the misuse of facial-recognition applications in China will be allowed to claim as damages the legal costs incurred while seeking to redress the abuse of the increasingly popular technology. The Supreme People’s Court today released new directions on the application of law for handling civil lawsuits involving the use of facial-recognition technology in processing personal information. The directions coincide with growing controversy around the rapid development of facial-recognition in China.Individuals that have suffered from the misuse of facial-recognition applications in China will be allowed to claim as damages the legal costs incurred in the process of seeking to redress the abuse of the increasingly popular technology....

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China to expand damage claims for abuse of facial recognition in latest court directions

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