Russian Facial Recognition Payment System
Moscow Metro rolled out new facial recognition technology allowing customers to pay for rides using only their faces.
The new service, Face Pay, requires riders to upload their photo, bank card, and metro card information to a mobile app. privacy advocates raised concerns about Face Pay expanding Russia’s state surveillance apparatus. Moscow has recently expanded its CCTV camera network, and has installed around 175,000 of its planned 200,000 surveillance cameras.
