China public servants use face masks to bypass facial recognition to help each other skip work
Local level government staff make printouts of colleagues’ faces to circumvent clocking-in system, triggering backlash
Employees at a neighbourhood committee in China have resorted to printing out images of their colleagues’ faces and using them as masks to circumvent facial recognition clocking-in systems, shocking the online community.
According to Wenzhou City Daily, a resident surnamed Li reported several members of staff at the committee in Wenzhou City, in eastern China’s Zhejiang province, for using these face masks to skip work.
Li said that the secretariat of the committee, also surnamed Li, led a group of staff to cheat the face recognition clocking-in system.
They printed the faces of their colleagues on paper and made them into masks.
By wearing the face coverings, one person could check in for work for multiple people.
The malpractice was recorded by a surveillance camera installed above the check-in machine.
It is unknown how many members of staff were involved or how the whistle-blower obtained the surveillance footage.
