India, Dec. 10 -- A group of employees at a neighbourhood committee in China allegedly used printed images of their colleagues' faces as masks to fool a facial recognition clocking in system, according to a report by the South China Morning Post.

According to Wenzhou City Daily, a resident surnamed Li reported that several staff members at a neighbourhood committee in Wenzhou City in Zhejiang province printed out high resolution photographs of colleagues' faces and crafted them into masks. These were then worn to fool the attendance system.

Li alleged that the committee's secretariat, also surnamed Li, led the group in cheating the clocking in mechanism. By wearing the paper face coverings, one staff member could reportedly check in on ...