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Jan 17, 2021

Big Brother gets even bigger: Moscow to create database with residents’ salaries, vehicle information & even school results

Posted by in categories: education, robotics/AI, surveillance, transportation

Moscow has revealed a plan to spend $2.4 million on a giant database containing information about every single city resident, including passport numbers, insurance policies, salaries, car registrations – and even their pets.

It will also include work and tax details, school grades, and data from their ‘Troika’ care – Moscow’s unified transport payment system, used on the metro, busses and trains.

The new proposal will undoubtedly increase fears about ever-growing surveillance in the Russian capital, where the number of facial recognition cameras has recently been increased.

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