想象一下，急匆匆的通勤路上不用停下來付火車票，也不用充地鐵卡是什么感覺。

這聽起來像是一個大城市通勤者的夢境，但中國深圳的福田地鐵站希望把它變成現(xiàn)實(shí)。據(jù)《南華早報》報道，這座位于擁有1253萬人口繁華都市的地鐵站，目前正在測試面部識別支付。

通勤者每次付款時都需要看向一個小型平板電腦，后者會對其進(jìn)行面部識別，并從之前關(guān)聯(lián)的付款方式中扣除車費(fèi)。該系統(tǒng)使用極速的5G網(wǎng)絡(luò)連接，如果進(jìn)展順利，這項(xiàng)技術(shù)的應(yīng)用最終可以拓展至數(shù)百萬乘客。

然而近期人們對面部識別數(shù)據(jù)和軟件的擔(dān)憂與日俱增。上周初，美國全國廣播公司（NBC）新聞報道，IBM根據(jù)知識共享許可協(xié)議刪除了數(shù)百萬張F(tuán)lickr照片，以幫助消除用戶對面部識別軟件的偏見，但此舉未經(jīng)用戶同意。然而，面部識別技術(shù)已經(jīng)在中國公開使用，政府可以利用該技術(shù)做任何事，無論是對橫穿馬路者加以管教，還是預(yù)測一個人的行為。

這個世界上人口最多的國家似乎要成為最早實(shí)現(xiàn)變革的國家。移動支付正慢慢在美國流行起來，但在中國的普及程度令人咋舌。全球觀察見解類咨詢公司Kantar TNS的一項(xiàng)調(diào)查顯示，據(jù)受訪者反饋，中國消費(fèi)者中有40％表示自己每周都會使用移動支付，77％表示他們曾經(jīng)使用過移動支付。

在中國嘗試過的各類支付實(shí)驗(yàn)中，地鐵站肯定不是最特別的。2017年，中國的一家肯德基餐廳讓人們用一種肯定不能留在家里的事物來支付購買炸雞的錢——微笑。（財富中文網(wǎng)）

譯者：Agatha

Imagine rushing through your commute without having to stop to pay train fare or add money to a subway pass.

That might sound like a big city commuter’s dream, but the Futian subway station in Shenzen, China, wants to make it a reality. The station, which is located in a bustling city of 12.53 million residents, is testing facial recognition payments, according to the South China Morning Post.

Every time a commuter looks at a small tablet, it recognizes their face, and deducts their fare from a previously-linked payment method. The system is powered by a super-fast 5G network connection that could ultimately allow the technology to scale for millions of riders, if everything goes according to plan.

The report comes amid growing concern about how facial recognition data sets, and software, could be used in the future. Earlier last week, NBC News reported that millions of Flickr photos were scraped by IBM, under a Creative Commons license, but without user consent, to help them eliminate bias in facial recognition software. However, facial recognition technology is already used in public in China, allowing the government to do everything from shaming jaywalkers to predicting a person’s behavior.

The world’s most populous country also tends to be a group of early adopters. While mobile payments are slowly catching on in the United States, they’re incredibly common in China. Of those surveyed, 40% of Chinese consumers reported using mobile payments on a weekly basis, while 77% of consumers said they had used a mobile payment in the past, according to a survey from Kantar TNS, a global insights consultancy.

The subway test certainly isn’t the most unique payments experiment the country has tried. In 2017, a KFC restaurant in China let people pay for their fried chicken with something you can’t leave at home—a smile.