In China, hotels are required to check every guest’s national ID card or passport and submit this information to the local police. Moreover, it also started to become common practice for hotels to insist that guests use a facial recognition scanner, so that hotels and the local police could verify guests’ facial data matched the photo on their IDs.
But it appears that official attitudes toward facial recognition are shifting to a certain extent, with concerns rising about the risks posed by the technology. Shanghai has announced that local hotels will be banned from forcing guests to use facial recognition scanners during check-in.
