School of Public Health, Southeast University, Nanjing, China
Department of Architecture and Built Environment, University of Nottingham - Ningbo China, Ningbo, Zhejiang, China.
J Med Ethics. 2022 Dec;48(12):1058-1059. doi: 10.1136/medethics-2022-108130. Epub 2022 Apr 5.
Although the prevalence of facial recognition-based COVID-19 surveillance tools and techniques, China does not have a facial recognition law to protect its residents' facial data. Oftentimes, neither the public nor the government knows where people's facial images are stored, how they have been used, who might use or misuse them, and to what extent. This reality is alarming, particularly factoring in the wide range of unintended consequences already caused by good-intentioned measures and mandates amid the pandemic. Biometric data are matters of personal rights and national security. In light of worrisome technologies such as deep-fake pornography, the protection of biometric data is also central to the protection of the dignity of the citizens and the government, if not the industry as well. This paper discusses the urgent need for the Chinese government to establish rigorous and timely facial recognition laws to protect the public's privacy, security, and dignity amid COVID-19 and beyond.
虽然中国有基于人脸识别的新冠疫情监测工具和技术，但并没有针对人脸识别保护居民面部数据的相关法律。公众和政府通常都不知道人们的面部图像存储在哪里，它们是如何被使用的，谁可能会使用或滥用这些图像，以及使用的程度如何。这一现实令人担忧，尤其是考虑到在大流行期间，一些善意的措施和指令已经造成了广泛的意料之外的后果。生物识别数据事关个人权利和国家安全。鉴于深度伪造色情等令人担忧的技术，保护生物识别数据对于保护公民和政府的尊严也至关重要，如果不是为了保护整个行业的话。本文讨论了中国政府在新冠疫情期间及之后，迫切需要制定严格且及时的人脸识别法律，以保护公众的隐私、安全和尊严。
