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Activist sues Moscow city for implementing facial recognition technology in public cameras

October 8, 2019 October 8, 2019

Moscow activist Alyona Popova has submitted a lawsuit asking for the city’s implementation of facial recognition technology to be declared illegal. Sarkis Darbinyan, an attorney for the free speech group Roskomsvoboda who is representing Popova in court, notified Vedomosti, a major Russian daily, of the lawsuit. Popova is arguing that processing biometric data without receiving written permission from the …

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Moscow’s EdCrunch to gather 300 international experts and 20,000 attendees (Oct. 1-2)

September 26, 2019 October 3, 2019

Held in Moscow for the 6th time under the aegis of the Russian government, the annual EdCrunch is one the largest edtech events in Europe. It is also a unique discussion platform for educational experts, scientists, teachers, parents, methodologists, HR specialists and business entrepreneurs from all over the world, in a word, everyone who is interested …

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Statistical abnormalities cast suspicion on Moscow’s first blockchain e-voting

September 13, 2019 September 15, 2019

On Sunday Sept. 8, while Moscow voters were called to renew the city parliament, a remote electronic voting procedure was made available to a fraction (6%) of them – in three city districts – as an alternative to paper ballot. The experiment was presented as “secure and honest” thanks to the use of blockchain. This technology “ensured the safety …

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Moscow summit to gather early-stage investors from Russia, Europe and America (Sept. 13-15)

August 23, 2019 August 26, 2019

In its third edition, this 3-day event will gather select early-stage investors, including business angels, seed funds and their associations, in partnership with EBAN. Top speakers will come from as far as Austria, Canada, France, Germany, Greece, Israel, Mexico, Panama, Poland, Sweden, Turkey, the UK and the USA. In previous years, the summit took place …

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Moscow city aims to launch experimental platform for AI technologies

August 13, 2019 November 12, 2020

Sberbank, the state-owned financial and digital giant, is discussing with the city and country authorities the creation of a dedicated platform and framework in Moscow to experiment AI technologies. Participants in the experimental site would benefit from a privileged legal and tax framework and be allowed to leverage the Russian capital’s huge data volumes. The …

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Are you safe from Big Brother’s prying eye in Moscow?

July 23, 2019 November 12, 2020

It’s Sunday evening in Moscow, late January 2019. A nondescript fair-haired man is walking through the Tretyakov Gallery. All of a sudden, he approaches a picture, looks at it carefully, removes it from the wall, and calmly walks off with it under his arm in front of dozens of visitors. No one bats an eyelid. …

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First test for Moscow’s online voting system ends in failure

July 16, 2019 July 14, 2019

Moscow’s first test for a new remote electronic voting system ended in a technological failure, prominent election analyst Grigory Melkonyants announced on Facebook. The Internet voting mechanism was put to the test during an election for the best student congress president in Moscow’s higher education system. 1,794 “voters” — that is, Moscow university students — were asked …

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Moscow City Hall uses taxis, video cameras, and metro passes in new citywide surveillance scheme

July 11, 2019 November 12, 2020

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 …

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Private investor envisions $2 billion tech park with giant data center in Moscow

June 12, 2019 June 12, 2019

A private investor in Moscow is willing to build a giant data center in Russia, reported business daily Vedomosti, citing “a source close to the project.” Dubbed ISTRADIGITAL, the project envisages the construction of a technology park near Moscow worth 132 billion rubles (about $2 billion at the current exchange rate). Among other facilities, it would …

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Moscow ranked #10 in global startup ecosystem ranking of 1,000 cities

June 4, 2019 December 19, 2019

StartupBlink has just released the 2019 edition of its Startup Ecosystem Rankings Report, which now encompasses 1,000 cities and 100 countries across the world. This is the first StartupBlink report that aims to track both momentum and trends within the global startup ecosystem. StartupBlink’s algorithm analyzes tens of thousands of data points. Data is coming from …

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French-Russian conference: How to develop a “third digital way” (Moscow, June 5)

June 3, 2019 June 6, 2019

LINAGORA is honoured to invite you to a conference that will take place in Moscow on the 5th of June just before St Petersburg International Economic Forum-2019 (June 6-8). The conference is dedicated to the issues and challenges of the digital economy and as well to cooperation between Russian and French digital ecosystems. Participants will …

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“Your order will be delivered by a literature teacher:” Food delivery startup launched weird ad campaign in Moscow

May 17, 2019 May 17, 2019

Delivery Club, a food delivery service owned by the Mail.Ru Group, has launched a new outdoor advertising campaign in Moscow, papering streets, subway cars, and train stations with posters that show couriers smiling beneath descriptions of their other careers and personal lives. The ads have been a laughing stock on social media because the delivery people working …

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