Moscow plans to introduce an automated system of fines for quarantine violations. The system is based on data from street CCTV cameras, mobile operators and bank data on purchases.
It seems that digital totalitarianism has already begun.
In China, tight control of citizens through city cameras and smartphones was before the Coronavirus epidemic, and the quarantine intensified digital totalitarianism many times. Russia is now following a similar path, so the tracking of the digital footprint is rapidly increasing and new laws are being hurriedly passed.
Also, the IT and SORM telegram channel has published the interim results of the study of the application for tracking the inhabitants of Moscow:
Intermediate results of studying of the app for tracking inhabitants of Moscow:
- The application gets access to all information on a phone: GPS, camera, location, possibility to call, viewing of any data, access to any settings.
- The application transmits the collected information to City Hall servers in the open form without any encryption. This is a failure.
- To recognize faces, the application uses the Estonian service identix.one - that is, it transmits photos to the Estonian jurisdiction and to servers located in Germany. Both countries are part of NATO.
- The application is being developed by Gaskar, a contractor for Infogorod.
- MAC and IMEI (individual device identifiers) are encrypted in QR codes.
- RUR 180 million was spent on the application. Judging by its quality, 99% of the budget was stolen.
This is a complete failure and shame. Moscow DIT should be dispersed with sticks for this.
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