Commentary The People’s Republic of China has a formidable reputation in the field of facial recognition technology. This technology, which is increasingly used in surveillance operations to control China’s population, is widespread and intrusive. Relying on this technology, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is developing its social credit system, which has become one of the pillars of the Chinese legal system, used to ensure regime stability and to evaluate the trustworthiness of individuals and organizations and their allegiance to the communist regime. The social credit system is an emanation of the CCP’s data-driven governance, using facial recognition technology developed by the Communist Party with the help of major tech companies. These companies and other organizations have been assiduously implementing their own version of the facial recognition technology, ostensibly in accordance with the Party’s instructions and guidance, but also to benefit their operations by collecting data about individual customers. This practice …