The court dismissed the case on the illegality of the facial recognition system in Moscow

The Tverskoy Court of Moscow terminated proceedings on an administrative lawsuit filed by activist Alena Popova demanding a ban on the use of facial recognition technology. This was reported by Interfax with reference to the press service of the court.

The defendants in the lawsuit were the Moscow Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Department of Information Technologies of Moscow.

Popova will challenge the decision at the ECtHR, she told Interfax.

• The Savelovsky Court of Moscow has already considered Popova's claim in the fall of 2019 and left it unsatisfied. According to that lawsuit, only Popova was the applicant, in the lawsuit, which was considered by the Tverskoy Court, oppositionist Vladimir Milov was also named as the plaintiff.
• The face recognition system in Moscow was launched in 2017. In mid-2019, the Moscow government announced plans to dramatically increase the number of video cameras connected to the system. The Department of Information Technologies of Moscow promised that by the end of the year the number of cameras would grow from 1,500 to 105,000.
• Facial recognition technology, according to Forbes , was purchased by the mayor's office from NtechLab for at least $3.2 million. MBKh Media reported that CCTV data is being sold on the black market.