From the MT:
“Russia
Plans Biometric Database for Citizens, Foreigners – TASS”
Russia plans to
create a national biometric database to identify both citizens and foreign
nationals via face recognition and fingerprints, state media reported Sunday. Russia’s
Interior Ministry told the state-run TASS news agency it plans to develop the
centralized biometric database in 2021-23. The database will allow the
authorities to identify individuals or bodies through Russia’s federal genetic
identification search system, the official said. The database will include the
biometric data of Russian citizens and foreigners as well as stateless people. The
announcement comes after the RBC news website reported last week that the
Interior Ministry plans to develop artificial intelligence to find serial
criminals via DNA-based facial composites created by a neural network. Interior Minister Vladimir Kolokoltsev
reportedly first announced plans to create a biometric database in 2014. The
system is expected to integrate biometric identification with traffic
surveillance and wanted lists. In 2017, Russia passed a law allowing the
Interior Ministry and Federal Security Service (FSB) to gain access to bank
customers’ biometric data, including facial images and voice recordings,
without their consent. The remote bank account verification operator has said
it could expand the data to iris recognition, as well as palm and fingerprint
scanning.
^ This doesn’t
surprise me in the least. Russia is run by the same people who worked the strict
Soviet surveillance system that watched every aspect of its citizens and
foreigners alike. ^
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