said by HELLFIRE:»www.reuters.com/article/ ··· BN27P10U
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... Current regulations do not clearly define how and when police can access the cameras nor establish mechanisms for judicial or public oversight, said Darbinyan. “What we have right now is a system that doesn’t have any kind of control,” he said. Kuznetsova and Roskomsvoboda have filed a suit seeking to pause facial recognition until clear rules are in place...
... Take what you will from this article.
It's Russia. The regulations and controls will finally come... but only to block the 'legal' dissemination of the data to non-LEA groups. There isn't a breath of a chance that the governmental organs will abandon the use of the technology and data... and once that happens, the rights groups will lose any window into the extent of the practice.