Moscow Says It is First To Launch Large-scale Metro Facial ID Payment System (reuters.com) 19
Moscow's sprawling metro network on Friday launched a fare payment system using facial recognition technology at its more than 240 stations, an initiative the authorities said was the first of its kind in the world. From a report: Moscow, a city of 12.7 million, has one of the world's largest video-surveillance systems. It has used facial recognition technology to enforce COVID-19 quarantines, and protesters attending political rallies have also said police have used it to make preventive arrests and detentions. The authorities are now giving commuters the option to use facial recognition to pay their fare with a system called "Face Pay" at turnstiles equipped with cameras. "Moscow is the first city in the world where this system is operating on such a scale," Maxim Liksutov, head of the Russian capital's transport department, said in a statement.
Russia ... setting a bad example... (Score:1)
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This is Mongol heritage.. (Score:1)
This part of Russian political system was inherited from Mongols...
Good Czar, bad Boyars...
Lying is OK - especially to adversaries - contrary to Europe's knights heritage where lie is bad.
Blackmailing (kompromaty), sawing dissent, political assasination etc. etc.
These are all techniques that allowed Mongols to build the largest world empire...
These are all techniques still in use by Moscow today...
Let me fix that for you (Score:3)
Moscow Says It is First To Launch Large-scale Metro Facial ID System that may also let you make payments.
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Your payment has been approved. Board train for Siberia.
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Your payment has been approved. Board train for Siberia.
I can't make the train, I just fell out a window.
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You've committed suicide...
Though as good citizen you closed the window after you fell/jumped ...
Common fare. (Score:2)
The authorities are now giving commuters the option to use facial recognition to pay their fare with a system called "Face Pay" at turnstiles equipped with cameras.
For those of you with a John or Jane Doe face this could work out for you.
In Soviet Russia... (Score:3)
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Masks? (Score:2)
Amazing that an article on a topic like this wouldn't mention whether or not the system works with masks. Maybe they're not a big deal in Russia but at least where I live, I think masks are going to be a pretty common feature in our public transport system, with or without mandates.
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They are ahead of the world by 5+ years in real life face recog and image recognition. Remember FaceTime (and the craze and panic around it)? It did not appear out of nowhere. It is also nothing compared to their police video analysis tools. There used to be a demo on youtube on what SK tech dept is working on and some of it was amazing. They had fingerprinting of people's movement and ability to identify people despite thick layers of clothes just by the way they walk or move.
It is also what is
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You are either a complete fantasy land or you're a troll, if Navalny wasn't poisoned then why was he initially treated in a Russian hospital? No reason to read the rest of your post when you're this deluded. No doubt you think Putin is a great leader and not corrupt.
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Super interesting, thanks for the comprehensive reply. I have had a few people complain that the face recognition on their phone unlock doesn't work & figured the software wasn't at that point yet.