Bloomberg reports on the use of facial recognition cameras to identify protestors in Russia. Police accessed the facial recognition surveillance system to identity citizens who attended protests in support of Alexey Navalny. Human rights monitoring group OVD-Info found more than 50 protestors were picked up over the next couple of days.
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