MOSCOW: Moscow authorities have allocated more than US$10mil (RM40.38mil) to purchase and install across the city’s sprawling metro system high-definition cameras that can recognise faces and track fast movements, Russian media reported on Feb 25.
Russia’s capital Moscow in recent years has developed a vast network of some 100,000 facial recognition cameras, sparking concerns from activists over state surveillance.
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