Secretariat of the National Information Security Standardization Technical Committee, Practice Guide for Cybersecurity Standards: Security Requirements for the Protection of Personal Information in Payment Scenarios with Facial Recognition (Draft for Comments)

全国信息安全标准化技术委员会秘书处网络安全标准实践指南——人脸识别支付场景个人信息保护安全要求 (征求意见稿)

June 26, 2023 | BY

Susan Mok

Data shall not be collected other than when facial recognition is active

Issued: May 23, 2023

Main contents: The Practice Guide sets forth requirements in respect of the protection of personal information for payment scenarios with facial recognition in indoor and outdoor areas. The Practice Guide does not apply where a user makes a payment with facial recognition using his/her own mobile phone or other smart mobile terminal.

Data shall not be collected other than when facial recognition is active: data collection shall commence only after an express interactive action, such as a manual click; and data collection shall stop once facial recognition is completed or one minute after the commencement of data collection.

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