Moscow Vice Mayor Maxim Liksutov has told the BBC Russian Service that the Russian capital’s municipal government is tracking the movements of its residents using tools as diverse as taxi data, cell phone data, security cameras, data from Troika multi-ride metro passes, and customer complaints about the city’s public transport system.
Liksutov said that all this geoanalytical data is depersonalized and used only to improve Moscow’s transit network. “We have no personal data whatsoever. This data looks like a series of points that travel around, and we don’t even have approximate information about who they might be,” the vice mayor said.
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