The Russian Interior Ministry intends to create a centralized biometric data bank for residents of the Russian Federation and foreign nationals to identify people from facial images and fingerprints. This is reported by ТАСС citing the ministry’s press service.
The plan is for work on the system to run through 2023. Over this period the Interior Ministry should develop dedicated software for ‘forming, maintaining and using the centralized biometric parameters database of Russian citizens, foreign nationals and stateless persons’, the press service said.
Creation of such a database обсуждалось as early as 2014.
In February 2020 стало известно that the Interior Ministry is developing a separate system for locating criminals and suspects using city surveillance cameras.
It is expected that artificial intelligence will be able to recognise a person by face, voice, iris and tattoos.
Earlier, in June, President Vladimir Putin also approved the creation of a unified federal population registry.
For more on why the registry is needed and whether to worry about the security of the data it contains, read ForkLog’s exclusive.
Data on Russians in one place: why a unified registry is needed and how secure it is
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