Pegatron has decided to crack down on illegal child labor by using facial recognition technology

Most recently, at the plant for the assembly of iPhone, the company owned by Pegatron, killed several workersIncluding illegally settled on the production of 15-year-old. Wall Street Journal it was reported that Pegatron has decided to tackle the problem of illegal employment of children in their factories and began to use people when receiving recognition technology applicants for the job.

The company uses technology in comparison of real people and photos on identity cards. This form of testing is designed to weed out candidates with borrowed or fake identities and had to prevent the appearance of the factory 15-year-old worker.

That is what informs Wall Street Journal:

Pegatron argues that applicants for a job on the assembly line are authenticated identity cards. Their faces are compared to photographs on identity cards to otseit candidates with borrowed identities. Their names are also checked in the police databases

Theoretically, such measures should prevent the recruitment of minors, since they must be caught on the use of fake or not they own identity. The Pegatron believe that Shi Zyaokun dead teenager could get around the ban by using your own photo on the certificate with another's data

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To date, the work of minors is one of the biggest problems in China. According to the laws of the country are allowed to work 16 years, but due to financial problems, many teenagers are trying to get a full-time since 14-15 years.

growth in the number of overtime hours is also a common phenomenon in the Chinese factories, including many of Apple's suppliers. Despite the fact that Apple has taken steps to strengthen monitoring of the situation at its plants, suppliers, many workers still work more than 80 hours a week.