Moscow’s sprawling metro network on Friday launched a fare payment system using facial recognition technology at its more than 240 stations, an initiative the authorities said was the first of its kind in the world. From a report: Moscow, a city of 12.7 million, has one of the world’s largest video-surveillance systems. It has used facial recognition technology to enforce COVID-19 quarantines, and protesters attending political rallies have also said police have used it to make preventive arrests and detentions. The authorities are now giving commuters the option to use facial recognition to pay their fare with a system called “Face Pay” at turnstiles equipped with cameras. “Moscow is the first city in the world where this system is operating on such a scale,” Maxim Liksutov, head of the Russian capital’s transport department, said in a statement.
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