Andrey Kaganskikh, a journalist for MBK Media, has found that access to Moscow’s surveillance cameras and their new facial recognition technology is being sold on the black market.
As of the beginning of 2019, there were more than 170,000 surveillance cameras installed in Moscow. They are posted in courtyards, lobbies, parks, schools, clinics, malls, construction sites, and, of course, government buildings. About 3,000 of those cameras are connected to a facial recognition system that is integrated with Russia’s police databases. The Moscow government plans to enable facial recognition in the rest of its video surveillance system in the foreseeable future.
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