Kina kräver ansiktsigenkänning för mobilabonnemang

»China is taking every measure it can to verify the identities of its over 850 million mobile internet users.

From Dec. 1, people applying for new mobile and data services will have to have their faces scanned by telecom providers, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology said in a Sept. 27 statement (link in Chinese).«

Quartz: Getting a new mobile number in China will involve a facial-recognition test»