Face Pay: Moscow Metro's Facial-Recognition Payment System Raises Surveillance Concerns, 18 October 2021

The Moscow Metro has touted a new facial-recognition payment system as the first mass-scale use of a technology that will bring greater convenience to people's everyday lives. But its launch in Russia has raised concerns about the system's possible misuse for surveillance purposes...

There is little public data on how the cameras work or how good they are...

Facial-recognition tech is also widely used on Moscow's streets. Authorities employed it to identify people who were prosecuted for joining opposition protests...