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On November 20, 2020, the Fuyang District Court of Hangzhou City held a trial in the case of Guo Bing v. Hangzhou Wildlife World Park. The court held that the collection of face recognition information exceeded the requirements of the necessary principles and was not justified.
Wildlife World Park was ordered to compensate Guo Bing RMB1,038 yuan and deleted the facial feature information including photos submitted by Guo Bing when he applied for the annual entrance card.
At the same time as the verdict of China’s first legal case relating to face recognition usage, the Ministry of Public Security issued a “Technical Requirements for Information Security Technology of Remote Facial Recognition System”. The new guidelines were implemented in November.