A Russian rights activist is challenging the Moscow city government over its growing use of facial-recognition technology amid widespread concerns that it violates citizens’ constitutional right to privacy and is being used as an instrument in the state’s crackdown on dissent.
RFE/RL: Russian challenges use of facial-recognition technology
A city sightseeing bus drives on a bridge over the Moskva river, with the Kremlin and the Russian Foreign Ministry headquarters seen in the background, in downtown Moscow on Aug. 6, 2019.
