CHINA-INTERNAL SECURITY: ALIBABA, TENCENT AND FACE RECOGNITION
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Face recognition software has already been introduced and is in use at border controls in Beijing and Kunming. All border guards and major passenger terminals in Xinjiang have already deployed "face recognition" equipment. China's Alibaba and Tencent software companies have taken a lead in applying the technology for their on-line non-physical banking operations by entering into an agreement with China's Ministry of Public Security. In April 2015, Tencent announced that it had reached a 'strategic cooperation agreement' under the "National Citizen Identity Card Number Search Service Center" with China's Ministry of Public Security to access its ID Card database. Under the agreement, the Ministry of Public Security provides the ID card database while Tencent provides algorithms to achieve real-time face and ID photos. Tencent and Ali Baba's online banking do not have physical outlets, and their accounts are online, which makes this "brush face" technology important to them. Tencent claims that its algorithm has achieved "social network image accuracy rate of 99%" and more than 99.9% accuracy in identity card photos. In other words, in 1000 times recognition is wrong only once.
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