{"id":11871,"date":"2020-11-25T07:16:33","date_gmt":"2020-11-25T12:16:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/?p=11871"},"modified":"2020-11-25T07:16:33","modified_gmt":"2020-11-25T12:16:33","slug":"face-for-sale-leaks-and-lawsuits-blight-russia-facial-recognition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/face-for-sale-leaks-and-lawsuits-blight-russia-facial-recognition\/11871\/","title":{"rendered":"Face For Sale: Leaks and Lawsuits Blight Russia Facial Recognition"},"content":{"rendered":"Originally published in Reuters, Nov 9, 2020. TBILISI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) &#8211; When Anna Kuznetsova saw an ad offering access to Moscow\u2019s face recognition cameras, all she had to do was pay 16,000 roubles ($200) and send a photo of the person she wanted spying on. The 20-year-old &#8211; who was acting as a volunteer for a digital rights group investigating leaks in Moscow\u2019s pervasive surveillance system &#8211; sent over a picture of herself and waited. Two days later and her phone buzzed. The seller had forwarded the paralegal a detailed list of all the addresses in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/face-for-sale-leaks-and-lawsuits-blight-russia-facial-recognition\/11871\/\" class=\"more-link\">(more&hellip;)<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Originally published in Reuters, Nov 9, 2020. TBILISI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) &#8211; When Anna Kuznetsova saw an ad offering access to Moscow\u2019s face recognition cameras, all she had to do was pay 16,000 roubles ($200) and send a photo of the person she wanted spying on. The 20-year-old &#8211; who was acting as a volunteer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":72,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[11,48],"tags":[879,368,1075,243],"class_list":["post-11871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-industry-news","category-left-hand","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-facial-recognition","tag-machine-learning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/72"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11871"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11872,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11871\/revisions\/11872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}