He was detained on his way there by police using facial recognition technology in the Moscow metro. But reports from other protesters who have attend rallies in recent weeks in support of jailed opposition politician Alexei Navalny also indicate police are using facial recognition technology to make preventive arrests and detentions. An unnamed law enforcement source told TASS news agency the technology used images stored on a database of regular protesters. Three others at the police station he was taken to had also been identified using facial recognition technology, she said. "There is still a lot we don't know about the facial recognition system in Moscow," said Kirill Koroteev, a lawyer at human rights group Agora.

Source: The Star February 11, 2021 15:00 UTC