{"id":44420,"date":"2021-06-16T11:16:43","date_gmt":"2021-06-16T08:16:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=44420"},"modified":"2025-08-31T16:54:33","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T13:54:33","slug":"media-russian-authorities-seek-to-create-a-unified-video-surveillance-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/media-russian-authorities-seek-to-create-a-unified-video-surveillance-system\/","title":{"rendered":"Media: Russian authorities seek to create a unified video-surveillance system"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Russian authorities are discussing the possibility of unifying all city surveillance cameras into a single system. This is reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kommersant.ru\/doc\/4857301\">\u00ab\u042a\u00bb<\/a>, citing sources familiar with the situation.<\/p>\n<p>250 billion rubles are planned to be spent on the development and installation of additional equipment for the National Surveillance Platform over five years.<\/p>\n<p>One source said the project envisages scaling the technology already deployed in Moscow, but on a different basis.<\/p>\n<p>The installed cameras will be equipped with computing modules that will enable the equipment to identify incidents autonomously, for example crimes, and only then send video to data processing centres (\u0426\u041e\u0414). At present, surveillance systems transmit video to data centres via continuous streaming.<\/p>\n<p>Experts highlighted the risks of creating such a unified platform. Nikolai Komlev, the executive director of the Association of Computer and Information Technology Enterprises, said that in the event of a data breach an attacker would gain access to &#8220;very sensitive information&#8221;:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8220;He will be able not only to track your movements around the city, but also, in the future, analyse your actions literally step by step.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>As previously reported, last year the sale of access to Moscow&#8217;s surveillance cameras appeared on the dark web, and in March specialists <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/thousands-of-publicly-accessible-surveillance-cameras-identified-in-russia\">identified<\/a> several thousand cameras with publicly accessible data.<\/p>\n<p>For more on the surveillance system and the deployment of facial-recognition technologies in Russia, read ForkLog&#8217;s exclusive.<\/p>\n<p>Follow ForkLog&#8217;s Bitcoin news on our <a href=\"\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"\u201c_blank\u201d\" rel=\"\u201cnofollow\u201d noopener\">Telegram<\/a> \u2014 cryptocurrency news, prices and analysis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russian authorities are discussing the possibility of unifying all city surveillance cameras into a single system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44421,"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":[27],"class_list":["post-44420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-russia"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"37","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44420","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=44420"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44422,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44420\/revisions\/44422"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}