It's not a bug.
In 2021, Tencent added facial recognition to PBUG (and many other games) to help enforce the Chinese Communist Party's rule that children under the age of 18 cannot play more than 3 hours per week. Whatever they have implemented, it also hooks into some national criminal database.
More info here: https://www.theverge.com/2021/7/9/22567029/tencent-china-fac...
Tencent is apparently the world's largest video gaming company: https://www.polygon.com/22949530/tencent-the-worlds-biggest-...
History of Tencent, told in dramatic fashion: https://youtu.be/51fWzJ-A5w4
