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Singapore and Facial Recognition

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-54266602

Singapore will be the first country in the world to use facial verification in its national identity scheme.
The biometric check will give Singaporeans secure access to both private and government services.
The government's technology agency says it will be "fundamental" to the country's digital economy.
It has been trialled with a bank and is now being rolled out nationwide. It not only identifies a person but ensures they are genuinely present.

Singapore's cloud-based service provider is iProov, an United Kingdom company.   Nonetheless, there's controversy on the actual consequences of using this technology.

"Consent does not work when there is an imbalance of power between controllers and data subjects, such as the one observed in citizen-state relationships," said Ioannis Kouvakas, legal officer with London-based Privacy International.
Additionally, Mr Kwok said, it is better for privacy because companies won't need to collect any biometric data.
In fact, they would only see a score indicating how close the scan is to the image the government has on file.

What will they do if the system ever throws a false positive?
The report also mentions a curious fact about China.

China hasn't attempted to link facial verification to its national ID, but last year enacted rules forcing customers to have their faces scanned when they buy a new mobile phone, so that they could be checked against the ID provided.

So a Chinese citizen might be quickly recognized by the CCP with ease.  Keep in mind China's two laws that facilitate the government to retrieve data from companies at their request without a judge issuing any warrant for him or her to study such data privately as part of any given trial.