The cost of transferring video from hundreds of thousands of surveillance cameras to government data centers in 2022 is 160% higher than in 2021.
In Russia, after the start of the war, the cost of services related to monitoring citizens increased dramatically. This was reported on Thursday, August 17, by The Moscow Times with links to data from the public procurement portal.
In particular, it was noted that the department’s expenditure on video transmission from hundreds of thousands of surveillance cameras to state data storage centers in 2022 reached a record 27 billion rubles. This is 160% higher than in 2021 (10.5 billion rubles) and 1.8 times higher than in 2020 (15 billion). Cumulative total since the start of the war, in 2022–2023. the state spent 30.7 billion rubles on video surveillance and facial recognition systems.
In addition, spending on facial recognition has grown: since 2011, the costs related to video recognition have reached 3.6 billion rubles, of which more than a quarter (1.2 billion rubles) – after the start of the war in Ukraine.
At the same time, it was noted that in the fight against criminals, the video recording system showed inefficiency.
“Moscow is more densely equipped with video cameras than any other city in the country, while the crime detection rate here is significantly lower than in the country as a whole – about 30%,” Sergei Ross, co- author of a study on surveillance technology in autocratic regimes, cited publication.
Earlier it was reported that the occupiers were installing video surveillance cameras near the railway in Crimea.
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Source: korrespondent
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