The number of surveillance cameras in the capitals and key cities of the world. From left to right, top to bottom: Moscow - 193,000, London - 627,707, New York - 31,490, Beijing - 1,150,000, Paris - 26,834, Shenzhen - 400,000.
How events developed and the (neuro) network of surveillance cameras grew in Moscow.
2016 year
February 2016 . NtechLab released FindFace to the public: users could find people on VKontakte by photographs on the street or in transport.
On April 20, 2016, Dvach users de-anonymized Russian porn actresses using FindFace .
On July 7, 2016, Daniil Turovsky spoke about the FindFace application and total surveillance technologies
2017
On September 28, 2017, the Moscow authorities began to connect the face recognition technology of the Russian company NTechLab to the city video surveillance system. For two months of the system's operation in test mode, it helped to arrest six criminals who were on the federal wanted list.
2018 year
FindFace Security from NtechLab made it possible to detain more than 180 offenders at the 2018 World Cup, some of the detainees were on the federal wanted list.
2019 year
June 27, 2019 . The Ministry of Internal Affairs disclosed the results of a test implementation of face recognition systems in the metro and on the streets of Moscow. With the help of 1,000 cameras outside the entrances of residential buildings, law enforcement officers detained 90 people.
In November 2019, the mayor's office ordered 258 servers, 105 computers and a storage system with a total capacity of 9 petabytes for 1.2 billion rubles.
2020 year
In January 2020, a competition for 1.9 billion rubles was announced. for the supply of equipment for the face recognition system in transport. A video surveillance system has been launched in the Moscow metro
since September 1, 2020 . It covers all metro stations. Now it is planned to develop this system in the direction of passenger services. One of them will be FacePay, which allows you to pay for travel by scanning your face. On November 15, 2020, the Moscow Government Department for Competition Policy allocated 252.6 million rubles. to expand the data storage system of the intelligent video surveillance system (ISVN) in the metro. Relevant tender
published on the public procurement portal. The contractor will have to install at least 2,220 hard drives with a minimum of 4 TB. The total storage capacity for surveillance cameras will increase by at least 8,880 TB. ( Source ) The
US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) conducted research and confirmed that the systems do not cope with masks. But six months later, the companies solved this problem - in the NIST study of December 2020, all three companies from Russia were included in the list of those who make the least mistakes.
2021
March 2, 2021. More than 900 criminals were detained thanks to the facial recognition system in the Moscow metro in six months.
The Moscow Mayor's Office will spend 2.917 billion rubles until 2025 . for a video surveillance system with a face recognition function in New Moscow.
Moscow's expenditures on the modernization of smart video surveillance systems and analysis of information about citizens are constantly growing. If in 2019 DIT spent 60.8 billion rubles for these purposes, in 2020 - about 68 billion rubles, then by the end of 2021 expenses are expected at 70.8 billion rubles, follows from the information on the website of the Moscow City Duma.
A video surveillance center where DIT data is collected. Photo by Anton Tushin for TASS
Worldwide statistics on security cameras
Surfshark report .
- Chennai in India is the city with the highest density of CCTV cameras: 657.28 per km 2 .
- London, England has the most CCTV cameras per sq. km outside Asia: 399.27 / km 2 .
- New York is the US city with the highest density of CCTV cameras: 25.97 / km 2 .
- Beijing has the most cameras (1.15 million), but it ranks 10th in terms of density (277.51 / km 2 ).
- Six of the 10 cities with the highest density of CCTV cameras are in China, three in India.
Top 9 cities in terms of the number of installed cameras. From 4th to 22nd places - India and China. Moscow is in 23rd place.
Top 9 cities in terms of concentration per sq. Km. Paris - 12th place, Baghdad - 16th place, Guadalajara - 17th place, Singapore - 23rd place, Buenos Aires - 29th place, Moscow - 30th place, St. Petersburg - 46th place
Not just cameras, not just a face
February 2, 2021 . The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia intends to use artificial intelligence to identify criminals by voice . The tender for the corresponding program and equipment was posted on the official website.
And MIT developments allow you to "see" through walls:
Article on Habré: Machine (radio) vision sees through walls
conclusions
Muscovites have become material for the training and development of the neural networks of the system. Due to the fact that people use identification systems, state. services, they enter the metro, the system understands more and more about people and faces.
“The notion of privacy should be left in the 20th century. In XXI it is not applicable. Everyone will know everything about you, it's just a matter of time. And you will only benefit from this. "
- Alexander Minin, CEO of NtechLab
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- "The concept of privacy should be left in the XX century"
- Who and how uses face recognition technologies in Russia
- Rostec: more than 180 people were detained at the World Cup using a face recognition system
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- The Ministry of Internal Affairs is satisfied with facial recognition in Moscow: more than 100 people were detained