If you look closely at this convenience store, you will see that there are no clerks and no cash register attached.
This is a scene from an unmanned convenience store in Hangzhou, China. When a QR code attached to a product shelf is scanned by a mobile payment application, the shelf opens, the product you want to buy is taken out, and when the shelf is closed, a sensor detects the product you have taken out and the payment application automatically pays for it. This innovative convenience store allows shoppers to make purchases with just a simple operation of their smartphones.
Thus, the development of the information technology (IT) industry in China, such as mobile paymentremarkablebut the background of the informationsurveillanceThere seem to be latent problems such as the following.
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(Photo:Koki Usami / 2023counter for years (following a number in the hito-futa-mi counting system)12month24(Taken on the day of the event)