How Russia Uses Facial Recognition to Stop Protestors
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The Russian Face-Based Surveillance System
There's an algorithm that flags your face and alerts human authorities nearby. And this part of the system at least appears to be mainly in the Moscow Metro. Almost all the people I interviewed had previously protested and many had previously been charged with protesting. So it does appear that they've been put into some kind of database.
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