Moscow's mayor is obsessed with your face
Sobyanin will collect CCTV data from throughout Russia as part of his friendly total surveillance grid
You have such a nice face.
Would you mind terribly if Sergey Sobyanin, the Techno-Khan of Moscow, stored it in his centralized data center, forever? And would it be okay with you if he identified your soft, supple face, even if you live in Chelyabinsk and have never stepped foot in Moscow?
Yes, of course that’s okay. You are flattered Sobyanin craves your face in such a passionate and intense way.
Kommersant has the steamy details:
The Moscow Department of Information Technologies plans to finalize a unified data storage center, at the facilities of which the capital’s face recognition system operates, to centralize the collection of video streams in all regions of the country.
From a technical point of view, this is logical, experts admit, since now no region can afford full-fledged computing power to process such a volume of data. The centralized analysis of video information becomes relevant in the face of an increased terrorist threat and the search for people who evade mobilization, participants in the Internet search market believe.
Round one of partial mobilization is basically (officially?) over, but we’re sure Sobyanin can utilize this “centralized analysis of video information” for all sorts of prole-hunting, and not just Evader-hunting.
There’s a precedent. In February 2020, Sobyanin announced that compliance with COVID quarantine measures in Moscow would be monitored using the city’s facial recognition system.
As we documented in July, cities across Russia are becoming very Smart—and very, very Safe.
And the smartness and safety-ness grows exponentially with each passing day:
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Safe City, I'm sure I've heard this somewhere before... Oh right, they do the same thing in my own city and even use the same term for it.
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Thanks for these articles, Edward. It is sad to see that Russia is now no different, fundamentally, from the West. It would have been good to imagine somewhere where real human life would be left to go on, hardships notwithstanding, even if one personally couldn't escape to it. But there's going to be nowhere. Having said that, both Russia and the US are very big, which I envy them insofar as it might be easier to hide for longer, maybe even until this grandiose project unravels.
Workers of the world unite. You have nothing to lose but your QR code.