Honor of Kings experiments with facial recognition to identify players

Tencent on edge after game addiction warning from Chinese state media

Last month when Tencent said they were going to check the name and national ID of gamers against police records, some people suggested they might as well scan their faces too.

Turns out, that’s exactly what Tencent is thinking.

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