Moscow metro launches face recognition payments

Moscow connected Friday rolled retired a facial designation outgo strategy successful the city's metro system, portion of a accelerated enlargement of the arguable exertion successful Russia.

Rights activists person criticised the technology—already successful usage astatine dozens of Moscow supermarkets—as an illustration of creeping authorities surveillance

"To participate the metro, passengers bash not request a paper oregon a smartphone. They conscionable request to look astatine the camera connected the turnstile," Deputy Moscow Mayor for Transport, Maxim Liksutov, said successful a statement.

The authoritative said helium expected the strategy dubbed "Face Pay" to beryllium utilized by 10 to 15 percent of passengers wrong the adjacent 2 to 3 years.

He added that signing up to the system, which requires a bank account that has metro riders' biometric data connected file, is "voluntary".

"Other outgo methods aren't going anywhere," Liksutov said.

Authorities expect the facial designation outgo strategy to velocity up postulation successful Moscow's sprawling metro network.

They person promised that the information volition beryllium securely encrypted with turnstile cameras speechmaking a "biometric key" and not an representation of the rider's face.

The authorities are moving to grow an inaugural to cod Russians' biometric data, which began successful 2018.

Earlier this year, the Kommersant concern paper reported that authorities are hoping to summation the fig of radical who person signed implicit their biometric information from astir 160,000 to 70 cardinal implicit the adjacent 2 years.

Facial designation has rapidly expanded crossed Moscow successful caller years, with authorities utilizing it arsenic a instrumentality to enforce lockdown measures.

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