What are the surprising effects of wearing antivirus masks on everyday life?


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In China, several municipalities and cities, including Wuhan , have been obliged to wear masks as a measure against the new coronavirus that has occurred in Wuhan, Hubei Province. Due to the spread of such masks, it has been reported that unexpected evils are affecting civil life.

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As the spread of the new coronavirus spreads, the number of people wearing masks in China has risen sharply, and the government has encouraged the use of masks, and most people walking around the city will be masked by masks. Was. Along with this, it has been reported that facial recognition by smartphones and devices installed in public facilities buildings has stopped functioning.

In China, where a social credit system that aims to monitor the entire nation has been introduced, face authentication is performed in various forms, and in extreme cases, `` Toilet paper can be used without face authentication to prevent theft of toilet paper There is no public toilet .



Concerns about privacy breaches have welcomed the disappearance of facial recognition surveillance. On the other hand, many Chinese have been embarrassed that the convenience provided by face recognition technology has been lost. Some iPhone users of SNS Weibo , the 'since recently has the all the time mask, the defect smartphone to unlock the face authentication has been genuinely annoy!' Post .



In addition, another iPhone user's woman also

posted that `` I'm always masked except when I'm sleeping for the last two days, so the iPhone Face ID is very difficult to use '' and revived Apple's fingerprint authentication He said that he wanted it.



Bruce Lee, vice president of Huawei, a major telecommunications equipment manufacturer in China, told Weibo, `` We tested face authentication assuming wearing a mask with our flagship smartphone

HUAWEI Mate 20 Pro , but eyes and head features are too small and security is too small can not be ensured, gave up the final face recognition unlocking of wearing a mask or scarf. for this reason, along with the 3D face recognition function, the time being, we plan to also support fingerprint authentication, 'said post And point out how difficult face recognition is with masks.



The downside isn't just the hassle of unlocking your smartphone. There have also been reports of cases in which apartment locks using facial recognition cannot be unlocked or access to bank accounts becomes difficult. In addition, the use of facial recognition payments for financial transactions is increasing, which is hindering everyday shopping. Face recognition can be performed by moving the mask off the face for a moment, but since face recognition has spread throughout life, many people are embarrassed and suddenly stressed that face recognition can not be performed suddenly And that.

A tech news site in China, Abacus, posted on the Internet `` The community gate (for security) did not perform face authentication and I was exhausted, but after two minutes I noticed that I was masking myself 'And pointed out how facial recognition has penetrated the lives of Chinese.

While the widespread use of masks has caused some unforeseen consequences, some have found unexpected convenience. One woman in Weibo 'If rash a hat and a mask, you can go out in one minute. Also need to paint the foundation, so it does not need to shampoo,' said

post and, unnecessarily every morning of a cumbersome makeup I was delighted that it became.

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