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Putin's Crackdown On Demonstrators Adds A Sadistic Twist: Using Surveillance Cameras To Identify People, But To Arrest Them Only Days Or Months Later


Thu, May 6th 2021 5:28am
Glyn Moody
It s hardly news that Vladimir Putin is cracking down on supporters of Alexey Navalny, or on the journalists who are brave enough to report on the wave of protests in support of the imprisoned opposition leader. But there are some interesting wrinkles to how this is happening. For example, in a move that will not surprise Techdirt readers, Moscow s massive facial recognition camera network supposedly set up to enforce quarantine restrictions, and to catch criminals has been re-purposed, as Bloomberg reports:
Police tapped the surveillance system to identify and detain dozens of people who attended last week s protests in the Russian capital in support of jailed Kremlin foe Alexey Navalny. More than 50 were picked up over the following days, including several journalists, according to OVD-Info, an independent human-rights monitoring group that gathers information on detentions. ....

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