A court in east China has ordered a wildlife park to delete the facial recognition data of a law professor and pay him compensation in the first case of its kind in the world’s second-largest market for surveillance systems.
Guo Bing, an associate law professor at Zhejiang Sci-tech University, sued Hangzhou Safari Park late last year for breach of contract after it replaced the identification system used for his annual membership from a fingerprint-based entry system to one that uses facial recognition.
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