{"id":37007,"date":"2021-02-25T11:11:21","date_gmt":"2021-02-25T09:11:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=37007"},"modified":"2025-08-29T09:17:52","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T06:17:52","slug":"moscow-to-install-facial-recognition-cameras-on-metro-screens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/moscow-to-install-facial-recognition-cameras-on-metro-screens\/","title":{"rendered":"Moscow to install facial-recognition cameras on metro screens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Moscow authorities plan to install 316 multimedia screens in the metro, each fitted with cameras and facial-recognition technology to monitor passengers.\u00a0<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kommersant.ru\/doc\/4704068\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kommersant<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, citing a corresponding procurement on the state procurement site, the city plans to spend 932 million rubles on the project.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the Moscow Metro, officials said that \u201cthe cameras in the screens are not intended for facial recognition or locating specific individuals.\u201d However, the project documentation states that each camera should include intelligent modules \u2014 for example, \u201cfacial detection,\u201d counting people and identifying crowding.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The enhanced functionality envisions \u201can object-behavior determination module.\u201d Among other things, it should detect \u201crapid movement\u201d and \u201cloitering.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The cameras will be integrated with the metro\u2019s systems to transmit \u201cmetadata from the camera about the recognized object.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In recent years, Moscow authorities have actively developed and expanded video-surveillance coverage. For details on how a system equipped with facial-recognition technology operates in Moscow and why rights defenders oppose it, read the link below.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"RfQEa8e5cW\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/from-the-capital-with-love-how-facial-recognition-technology-is-being-rolled-out-in-russian-cities\">From the capital with love: how facial recognition technologies are being implemented in Russian cities<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"From the capital with love: how facial recognition technologies are being implemented in Russian cities\" src=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/exclusive\/iz-stolitsy-s-lyubovyu-kak-idet-vnedrenie-tehnologij-raspoznavaniya-lits-v-rossijskih-gorodah\/embed#?secret=M3hzivJ3Ka#?secret=RfQEa8e5cW\" data-secret=\"RfQEa8e5cW\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to ForkLog news on Telegram: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/forklogfeed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ForkLog Feed<\/a> \u2014 the full news feed, <a href=\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ForkLog<\/a> \u2014 the most important news and polls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Moscow authorities plan to install 316 multimedia screens in the metro, each equipped with cameras and facial-recognition technology to monitor passengers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37008,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,1515],"class_list":["post-37007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-moscow","tag-tracking"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"31","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37007"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37009,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37007\/revisions\/37009"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}