VICE News - 2020-04-16
MOSCOW – The Russian capital is home to a network of 178,000 surveillance cameras. Thousands of these cameras are already connected to facial recognition software under a program called “Safe City.” Police claim the technology has helped arrest more than 300 people. Now, as part of the response to COVID-19, authorities are trying to bring every surveillance camera into the facial recognition network. This Orwelian step is supposedly to catch people breaking quarantine. At the end of January, before Moscow had any confirmed cases of coronavirus, the city purchased the latest version of NTechLab’s facial recognition software. They claim their software can identify a face even when 40% or more of it is covered. We tried it, and even in a balaclava it still recognized a face. When asked, Co-founder Artyom Kukharenko failed to make the connection between his powerful software and mass surveillance.“Why should it be used for mass surveillance I don't understand?” “When the system becomes more transparent to the majority of city residents, this fear will go away” he continued. Subscribe to VICE News here: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-to-VICE-News Check out VICE News for more: http://vicenews.com Follow VICE News here: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/vicenews Twitter: https://twitter.com/vicenews Tumblr: http://vicenews.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/vicenews More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideo #VICENewsTonight
I've read this book before.
@MexicanTacos 07 2 + 2 = vodka
@Fractal Humano write that in vaporwave font
@WHOLE FOODS THE DCHS HAS COME
George Orwell
@Robert Cleft 1984 George Orwell if you haven't found it by now worth the read
It's already in the "wrong hands" since the government possesses it.
@Pedro Gallegos a return from taxes is just an adjustment from overpayment of taxes plus credits for spending money on sales tax and doing things that help the economy and community (donations, buisness expenses, etc.)
And the stimulus check are going to the people who their jobs to make ends meet. It not only going to the individuals, but to the businesses that are hit hard by the pandemic.
These measures are there to prop up the economy so it can fight another day.
Otherwise, you will see a worst crisis compared to the previous financial crisis.
@Michael Mccarthy the poor cannot afford it and suffer
And what's wrong with that? tell me your face should not be recognized why? you're a thief ? or are you selling drugs? only morons think so. For a long time, it has not made sense to follow all. A large amount of data and more. You are being watched with the appearance of your mobile phone for that matter
@Vo1andyara technology gets cheaper each day. Some day not too far off the cameras and software will be everywhere.
Watching all of us, both rich and poor.
@John Doe You can't have total control over information, unless you limit the internet to a particular country. I can choose what to watch
I feel bad for future generations they will be living in a Orwellian nightmare
Do not feel bad for them. The kids in "1984" were happy. They spied on each other as a "sport" and non-challantly denounce and send their parents to reformation camps. It will be your nightmare, for them just life.
@Ion David Rodriguez that hurt
We need to fight it
We're living here already. Hello from Moscow.
" One who sacrifices privacy, for security, deserves neither. "
Well said Government is not God and never will be who are they to tell me how to live my life they are mere mortals just like me they are delusional they are corrupted if they tell us how to live our lives
Time to leave this place and seek the rainbow boots
@Mishael Dank looks like your also delusional tho, for real LOL
I support CCTV because it helps police find serial killers and rapist since it give's them a lead in the case. it also helps make the world a safer place since A'lot of people dont commit crimes because of the fear of going to prison, not because they're good people.
@Changing Flower nah man, I install secutiry cameras at commercial businesses. within the first week a just released inmate threayned a store owner and punched him and ran away, got his license plate and he was arrested a week later. not only that but I have footage of people breaking in stores with sparkplugs breaking glass and hit and run incidents. people are idiots you can put a camera right in front of them they do not notice
This is being implemented in all over the world: from the US to South America, from European countries to the ones in North Africa.
@ಠ_ಠ agreed. Since leaving the EU, the UK has started looking into implementing AI surveillance like this - they couldn't do this under GDPR
@ಠ_ಠ the EU has stronger restrictions for protecting their citizens privacy. However, they have implemented more surveillance equipment for "fighting future pandemics" following the Japanese and Korean systems (geolocation of their citizens).
if US had this lots crime would have been prevented
@dimaatik What about your phone and laptop then ?
No it ain't. So far this is not happening in Germany and I doubt that it'll happen in Nordic countries either.
"Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." - Geroge orwell
Yeah, that's why the US despite being one of the heavy users is never mentioned in the media.
The U.S. Department of State operates one of the largest face recognition systems in the world with a database of 117 million American adults
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facial_recognition_system#United_States
Ray yeah, except, according to your source, the US uses existing photos from stuff like driver’s licenses in combination with facial recognition software for mostly investigative purposes (rather than what seems to be active monitoring in some places).
@Brotimes haha.
The whole book is so actual. I can’t believe how prophetic he was.
nice profile pic though
Imagine if America had this tech, can bet it will be abused within an hour of its implementation... oh wait...
@Jeremy Reynolds Not true at all, all that data is encrypted on the phone. Show me a source or reference, otherwise that's all a scare tactics for people that Clearly don't know any better to believe in. They can't sell your encrypted data, as for one it's encrypted. I don't think you've read the fine print yourself.
Every phone is tracking people much deeper than only the front and back cameras that are accessible all the time.
America has it since ever. They also have Google and Facebook, Instrgram, Whatsapp and much more....
NYC has this system
Squiggly Destroyer 👍👍👍 Just Imagine LOL
@Nisso Malika Honest ones at least
Everybody should read "1984" by Novelist George Orwell once in their lives
and also aldous huxley's "brave new world," which was written around the same time during the same political atmosphere. i read it when i was 18, so i needed to google a few words, which made it slightly difficult reading, but it was absolutely worth it. brave new world is huxley's response to orwell, in the form of a question. what if people asked for the world of 1984, and what the reasonings and political climates around that particular world state might lead a group of people to willingly allow their society to become a 1984 police state. it's probably an even more important, impactful, and relevant book than 1984, at least in the context of our current society. it's an amazing read, and even if you might need your dictionary to tell you that "viviparous" means breeding sexually rather than asexually, it's worth the time investment. especially during these quarantine times. please read it.
It was required reading for me when I was a kid (NC,USA)
@Danielle Spargo I also read it as a teenager. Was fucking bored out of my mind and frustrated because as you say it's not exactly the most accessible read. I didn't understand until after I had finished it. It's one of those books that keeps you thinking and digesting what you've read well afterwards. Fantastic book. Opened my eyes to much of the human condition
@Samantha Rivera Thanks for the recommendations.
Add 'Brave New World' to the reading list. (A Huxley)
The technology genie never goes back in the bottle...
Never
A.I singularity will literally be the new Adam...
I occasionally get philosophical...
Literally every major city in the world has this kind of tech even if they don’t if you’re trying to hide from a government you can be found anyway
no
@Jeffery Mitchell Actually, he's right. Every major city on Earth has implemented some form of this technology.
@Darnell T. He doesn't have to live in a city.
Is in every continent already
Yes, for example CCTV, your phone, or laptops.
Dystopia is upon us.
Already happened, called NSA
Xeno Phon When was the last time you did that?
It is already upon us. It is too late
We've been in dystopia since before any of us were born & you'd be a fool to think otherwise
Kevin true
London has a much bigger system. Had it almost for a decade.
@Sonya Hao the queen of England stays out of the lives of her subjects which is why she is still alive unlike the royal familes of russia and france that kept noseing around in the lives of thier subjects and got murdred off by thier own people fed up of being controlled or taxed into oblivion, starved to death, poor economic managment ect. We have lived through multiple revolutions, multiple wars, started many, been invaded ourselves multiple times over thousands of years. We had an empire up until the last war. We know what a crappy leader is and if the queen was terrible she would have been killed off long ago.
fallout560 Öl m
@Say it! is authoritarian bad? I don't think so. I think democracy is not fair. You equalize competent voices to incompetent ones. Solders don't elect Generals. Nurses don't elect chief doctors etc.
@EUGEN093 I thought everyone agreed that Authoritarian is bad.
Ask the people who suffered under Authoritarian rules.
Is democracy not fair? At least democracy tried to be fair unlike Authoritarian countries.
Let's keep in mind that Democracy can become Authoritarian too. Ask Iraq/middle east.
@Say it! not everyone at first, second Under what rule Singapure, South Korea, China etc, Lebanon became what they are right now? (Lebanon couple of years ago)
Giving up privacy for safety, you deserve neither.
@war hammered it was Ghandi
what are they gonna do about it anyway? its just the face lol. You already traded your privacy to install an app.
@Samantha Rivera true, people are exaggerating like shit lmao, just because they see 5 cameras placed in one area they feel intimidated.
@war hammered "Always look on the bright side of life"
- Benjamin Franklin
@Torbjørn Lund I try
Thank for raising awareness to such a sickening and insidious way on how The Elite control and try to quite it citizens
Unpopular opinion: While I agree that throwing an empty paper cup at someone wouldn't warrant 8 years of imprisonment, it is still technically "assaulting" a police officer... Not saying it's right I'm not pro Russia or for surveillance or anything!
@ 2:04
Upton Sinclair — 'It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.
Nice video VICE.
In case of surveillance Russia has good rolemodels - UK and USA
The lockdowns will eventually lift, but the widespread use of facial recognition technology in many many countries are here to stay, making 2020 look more and more like 1984.
Definitely a double edged sword. This can be a great tool for catching criminals but it's also very likely to be misused and abused.
I would go beyond using the phrase "very likely" and say it's certain it will be abused
nah its a pretty fucking single edged sword. Governments and political parties will use this to destroy freedom of speech, expression, and action.
I don't think this tech was meant to catch criminals!
Government can make a criminal out of anybody...
This tech is everywhere, at least they have the guts to say we are implementing it tbh
Is it possible that even if a potato walked up to that door, it would open? A better test would be unauthorized people walking up too...
It most probably is just for demo purposes, and has a high acceptance rate to appear working better than it actually is. But, the camera is pretty close, probably very high definition, and facial features around the eyes are pretty unique, so the truth lays in between.
This has been happening in London and all over the UK for years but I guess because it's Russia it makes it more scary. A guy in London covered his face from a facial recognition camera and was detained and fined a whole back. Also I should add the UK has more CCTV than any other country in the world
So what if I cover my face with my shemagh
Free Palestine
This is why you move countryside :) No pollution, no surveillance cameras, no rush, not millions of people around all the time, not just grey concrete around you.
So can we talk about how hilariously low impact that paper cup was?
"everywhere you go you are watched" that reminds me of an English city..
No, in russian criminals use the cameras to spy on u while u pee against a tree!
I mean as Long u dont do anything bad why would the cameras brother u?
I would feel save around them i dont care if Somebody spys on me lol...
@Truth Telling Shit Poster Whats so bad about london?
@Ugnius Mayer The problem is when the government decides what is bad, they can arrest you for whatever they want. If someone bad gets into government leadership, we can't fight back with this technology in place.
@Storfax Actually, we already have survellance system around us. From CCTVs, facebook, instagram, google, laptops, cellphones, etc. Even police use this to track criminals. It's not something new. There's no real privacy. We can't run from it.
@Central Intelligence Agency We need to fight back
This is exactly what I feared would happen. Authoritarian regimes using the coronavirus as a pretext to take away basic human rights.
Never thought the Russians would come up with something this Good! Cheeky
They’re gonna bring this to America
it’s already here. ever notice the cameras in walmart that recognize your face with the green box. they have been implementing it for a few years now. 5g isn’t about people getting random cancer, 2g is even proven to of posed a more dangerous threat to us than 5g. 5g is about the government being able to keep tabs on everybody
Isn't a good thing for normal ppl?
Get a load of this guys still unaware about snowden leaks
Actually, we already have survellance system around us. From CCTVs, facebook, instagram, google, laptops, cellphones, etc. Even police use this to track criminals. It's not something new. There's no real privacy.
It's already in the U.S...
I can't believe how naive grown ass seemingly intelligent men can be about privacy.
Reminds me of 'Minority Report', starring Tom Cruise.
"Big Brother" has nothing at all to do with some reality tv show
People have developed reflective anti-camera specs. Seems to be the next move for everyone who are in the opposition.
Respect to Russia 🇷🇺
It doesn't seem too different from us in the US except we like to hide ours.
To watch 1984 unfold before my eyes scares me . Thank
God Corona might just put me out of my misery.
"everything is under control... " 🤔 6k new cases as of today..
I remember the app (just about a year ago) that made people's faces old, I heard that app was from Russia?
YOU'RE AWESOME da
AND THIS IS WHY WE ARE TOLD TO STAY INDOORS!
Also THANK apple for using your fingerprints and facial recognition and selling it to the highest bidder...
I see a war coming in the near future due to this
MOSCOW SOON WILL BECAME A FABRICATED CITY
Looks like it's reflective tape and sunglasses, and gravel in the shoes for the next little while, folks!
yes this is what I’m seeing so far:
Person + outside = prison
Prison • person = more cases
🤦🏻♂️ im done with this planet
Someone couldn't wait to show off his four years of college level Russian.
so this is how our freedom dies with with thunderous applause
Vice 😍 keep this up !!
God Bless mother Russia 🇷🇺 ❤️
of course the ones in power would say it could never be abused, this is just so shady and obscene
300 People arrested, yet millions of peoples integrity violated.
I want to hear the whole story. Unfortunately you can't believe how vice tells stories
VICE News - 2020-04-16
The lockdowns will eventually lift, but the widespread use of facial recognition technology in Russia is here to stay, making 2020 look more and more like 1984.
WATCH NEXT: Can We Trust Russia's Low Coronavirus Infection Rate? - https://youtu.be/xK5UQLv20Bs
toad toadersson - 2020-04-20
@The Markovs Some might argue it's deliberatr
toad toadersson - 2020-04-21
@zoki kostadinov shill for authoritarianism elsewhere
J Scotland - 2020-04-25
Can't trust no government now, we all need to fucking March into government buildings and hold them to account
Central Intelligence Agency - 2020-05-18
Actually, we already have survellance system around us. From CCTVs, facebook, instagram, google, laptops, cellphones, etc. Even police use this to track criminals. It's not something new. There's no real privacy.
Vo1andyara - 2020-06-25
I.e. they don’t bother that iPhone has been collecting fingerprints for 10 years 😂😂😂