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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Georgy Malets didn’t make it to an anti-Kremlin rally last month. He was detained on his way there by police using facial recognition technology in the Moscow metro.
FILE PHOTO: Protestors rally in support of Russian politician Alexei Navalny in Moscow, Russia January 31, 2021. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov/File Photo/File Photo
The 30-year-old Russian photo blogger said the police told him he had been identified by a “Face-ID” camera system and must accompany them to a police station for checks.
“I could see they had some kind of photographs, but they weren’t from cameras - it was definitely a photograph from my profile on social networks,” Malets told Reuters.
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FILE PHOTO: Protestors rally in support of Russian politician Alexei Navalny in Moscow, Russia January 31, 2021. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov/File Photo/File Photo
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MOSCOW: Georgy Malets didn t make it to an anti-Kremlin rally last month. He was detained on his way there by police using facial recognition technology in the Moscow metro.
The 30-year-old Russian photo blogger said the police told him he had been identified by a Face-ID camera system and must accompany them to a police station for checks.