Face Pay: Moscow Metro's Facial-Recognition Payment System Raises Surveillance Concerns

Name: Face Pay: Moscow Metro's Facial-Recognition Payment System Raises Surveillance Concerns
Uploaded: 2021-10-18 15:03:00Z
Duration: 2 min 25 s
Description: 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.

October 18, 2021 17:03 CET

By Ray Furlong,
Yury Baranyuk and
Kirill Belov-Belikov

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Face Pay: Moscow Metro's Facial-Recognition Payment System Raises Surveillance Concerns

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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.