Russia has found an Orwellian solution to tracking men eligible for military service, with authorities in Moscow using their vast surveillance camera system to identify those trying to avoid conscription, Reuters reports.
“The video surveillance systems of the city of Moscow are used to establish the conscript’s place of residence,” Maksym Lotkiev, head of the Russian capital’s military registry, said on Tuesday.
The announcement came days after President Vladimir Putin signed into law a law making it easier for Russians to draft into the military, a bill passed by the Moscow legislature in an emergency.
According to the new law, a reservist can now be mobilized electronically, through the portal of Russian public services or by order of a third party. Previously, the summons had to be served personally.
This law was prepared in connection with the fact that men between the ages of 18 and 27 began to be drafted into military service in Russia, and the Russian army conducts conscription in this sense every year in the spring and autumn.
Russia increasingly resembles George Orwell’s novel “1984”.
Representatives of the Russian Ministry of Defense have repeatedly assured that these recruits will not be sent to fight in Ukraine, unlike the men who were called up as part of the “partial” mobilization that Putin announced last September.
Moscow City Hall’s Information Technology Department announced back in 2017 that more than 3,000 surveillance cameras in the city were connected to a facial recognition system, and two years ago the Russian capital’s subway system implemented what Russian authorities called the world’s largest facial recognition payment system.
Called Face Pay, the payment system eliminates the need for travelers to carry cash, a credit card, a credit card or a mobile phone after they enter the relevant details into a mobile app.
Once the information is uploaded to the app, travelers will no longer need to carry their mobile phone, just looking at the video camera to pass the turnstiles.
The system was launched just a year after Russia introduced a student facial recognition system called “Orwell” to thousands of schools, designed to monitor children’s movements “to ensure their safety” and “identify strangers”, according to the company that created the software. software.
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