Elderly Chinese woman’s death fuels public outrage over bank’s rigid withdrawal rules (rfa.org)
from Pro@programming.dev to world@lemmy.world on 16 May 2025 08:09
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ms_lane@lemmy.world on 16 May 2025 08:27 next collapse

The critically ill woman died at the entrance of the Agricultural Bank of China’s Tianxin branch in Zhuzhou City of the central Chinese province of Hunan before she could complete the withdrawal procedure, the nephew said in the video.

…She repeatedly failed to pass the facial recognition as she was too ill to blink or shake her head as required during the screening and died after nearly an hour-and-a-half of such failed attempts.

In China, banks like the Agricultural Bank of China have made it mandatory to use facial recognition technology to process withdrawals

jfc, that’s horrifying.

gradual@lemmings.world on 16 May 2025 09:56 collapse

In China, banks like the Agricultural Bank of China have made it mandatory to use facial recognition technology to process withdrawals

Efforts to save money like this always need to be balanced by excessive fines when the corner-cutting fails to work.

This woman, like so many others, died so some rich people could be even richer.

grue@lemmy.world on 16 May 2025 15:17 collapse

Why did she need money to pay for medical care to begin with? Shouldn’t China, of all countries, have socialized healthcare?

InverseParallax@lemmy.world on 16 May 2025 17:17 collapse

You still have to pay, it’s just not much, like 100 yuan or so.