“Face control”: Russian police go digital against protesters
By Gleb Stolyarov and Gabrielle Tétrault-Farber
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Georgy Malets didn’t make it to an anti-Kremlin rally ultimate month. He was detained on his method there by police using facial recognition experience throughout the Moscow metro.
The 30-year-old Russian {photograph} blogger acknowledged the police instructed him he had been acknowledged by a “Face-ID” digicam system and may accompany them to a police station for checks.
“I would see they’d some kind of photos, nevertheless they weren’t from cameras – it was undoubtedly {{a photograph}} from my profile on social networks,” Malets instructed Reuters.
He acknowledged he was questioned for 4 hours as a witness in a authorized case the police acknowledged had been opened into earlier rallies, so missed the Jan. 31 protest.
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