A tower of the State Historical Museum is seen behind surveillance cameras in central Moscow, Russia last month. — Reuters
MOSCOW: A Russian court on Jan 31 heard a legal challenge to Moscow's rollout of facial recognition technology over privacy fears, after the final piece of its video surveillance jigsaw fell into place with the awarding of a software contract last month.
Moscow has stepped up its drive to launch facial recognition technology over the past year, spending or allocating at least 3.3 billion roubles (RM212.51mil) on hardware for the project, the database of state purchases showed.
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