A popular Chinese restaurant chain in Taiwan is denying it’s sending surveillance footage of its customers to China, coming after a Vancouver branch admitted it sent surveillance footage of its customers to China. The Haidilao Hot Pot restaurant in Taiwan, in an April 22 statement on Facebook, admitted it recorded footage of their customers, but said it was done “mainly to better protect consumers’ dining rights and safety, avoid poor service, and improve service quality.” The branch also denied ever using the footage to conduct facial recognition and analysis, adding that the recording was done in compliance with Taiwan’s laws and regulations. It added that the recorded videos are only temporarily stored in its branch, will not be preserved, and “has never been and will not be in the future backup outside of Taiwan.” The restaurant branch’s statement comes after a The Sunday Guardian Live reported on April 17 that a manager …