Municipal officials in St. Petersburg, Russia, said on Thursday that the city's closed circuit television (CCTV) surveillance cameras were upgraded with “ethnic recognition software” to “socio-conception software” to “socio-construction” We have announced that we will prevent it.
According to Oleg Kapchanov, the top official of the St. Petersburg city government's “interethnic relations” official, the city spent $434,000 in purchasing “ethnic cognition software” from vendors he refused to identify. The software interfaces with approximately 8,000 of the city's 102,000 cameras when the system is running.
Moscow Times Strong i doubt it The unnamed vendor turns out to be a Chinese company. Long ago China design An image scanning system that can identify the ethnic background of people in a crowd.
The Chinese government uses these systems to monitor the movement of oppressed people, such as the Uyghur and Tibetans. One of the first “Uigur Alert” facial recognition systems is It has developed With the support of telecommunications giant Huawei. The software was coded to notify police whenever security cameras spot Uyghur in a city that the Chinese Communist Party doesn't want them.
China faced international rage when it deployed first-generation ethnic cognitive software and responded with arguments similar to those created by St. Petersburg.
“This feature allows for a more accurate prediction of the need for resources to ensure order and security during large events and optimize the involvement of volunteers and law enforcement officials who speak different languages.” and city officials I said Russia Kommersant newspaper.
Valerie Fedeyev, head of the Presidential Council for the Development of Russian Civil Society and Human Rights, retorted that St. Petersburg police already knows where the city's “ethnic enclaves” are.
“In Russia, passports do not show nationality. Suddenly, some television cameras determine which nationality a person belongs to,” observed Fadyev.
Other critics questioned the effectiveness of ethnic recognition software, in addition to its ethical issues.
“The method is not very clear [ethnicity] It can be decided purely through recording without direct communication with the individual. That's where my questions are asked,” said Constantine Zaturin, the first vice-chairman on the Commonwealth of Independent State (CIS) issue.
“This initiative is wrong. It only promotes tensions and ethnic discords. Alexandra Dokuchaeva, deputy director of the CIS National Institutes, said:
Independent news website Meduza Proposed Officials in St. Petersburg are particularly concerned about immigration from Tajikistan and are keen to give the impression that they are probably paying attention to the Tajik population.
Tajik Nationals has been accused execution Gun attack In March 2024, we held a concert at Crocus City Hall on the outskirts of Moscow. The Islamic State has argued responsibility for ordering an attack that killed 115 people.
