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ForkLog 6 11.01.2021

Moscow authorities to bolster collection of residents’ personal data

The Moscow Department of Information Technology (DIT) intends to create a detailed database of the capital’s residents. It plans to spend more than 185 million rubles on it, writes «Ъ» citing materials on the public procurement site.

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ForkLog 19 23.12.2020

Dissertation council members at Moscow Pedagogical State University accused of bitcoin bribes

Law enforcement officials have accused members of the dissertation council at Moscow Pedagogical State University of taking bribes. Investigators say the bribes were paid exclusively in bitcoin, according to the Telegram channel Baza.

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ForkLog 7 21.12.2020

Masked assailants steal 15 million rubles from businessman during cryptocurrency purchase in Moscow

Several allegedly armed masked men robbed a businessman of 15 million rubles during the signing of a cryptocurrency purchase in a Moscow cafe. TASS reports, citing the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

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ForkLog 11 09.12.2020

Data leak in Moscow exposes personal data of 300,000 people who had Covid-19

Personal data of 300,000 Muscovites who recovered from Covid-19 has been made publicly accessible. The leak is the largest since the start of the pandemic, according to the Telegram channel Baza.

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ForkLog 5 25.11.2020

Moscow authorities to develop system for creating digital profiles of residents for 280 million rubles

The Moscow mayor's office has commissioned the development of a system aimed at creating a detailed digital profile of users of all city services, Open Media reports citing materials on the public procurement site.

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ForkLog 5 20.10.2020

Moscow authorities to track citizens’ movements via smartphones

The Moscow Centre for Transport Management (ЦОДД) will spend more than 155 million rubles on a system to monitor passenger flow via smartphones, according to Kommersant, citing documentation on the procurement website.

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ForkLog 5 13.10.2020

IT firms urge Moscow authorities to trim the data on employees that are transmitted

Several Russian IT associations sent a letter to Maksut Shadayev, head of Russia's Ministry of Digital Development, asking him to propose to Moscow authorities to shorten the list of data transmitted about remote employees. According to TASS, citing the letter.

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ForkLog 5 09.10.2020

Moscow authorities say data on remote workers will be anonymised, used only to assess passenger traffic

The data collected on Moscow-based employees who have shifted to remote work will be anonymised and used solely to assess passenger traffic, according to Dmitry Ivanov, deputy head of Moscow's Department of Information Technology, TASS reports.

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ForkLog 7 18.09.2020

Media: Moscow’s blockchain voting system published distorted data for about 16 hours

The Moscow municipal-elections e-voting observation system malfunctioned. As a result, for about 16 hours, extracts from the blockchain system were published with distorted data, according to Open Media.

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ForkLog 6 14.09.2020

Moscow Innovation Cluster Launches Blockchain Factoring

Entrepreneurs in Moscow now have access to a digital factoring service based on distributed ledger technology. The mayor's site reports.

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ForkLog 10 03.09.2020

Disartive to Host Moscow Fair of Modern Digital Art

From October 26 to 30 in Moscow, the international exhibition-and-fair of ultramodern digital art and design Disartive will be held.

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ForkLog 9 24.08.2020

Moscow authorities could stream data from city CCTV cameras to the public.

Moscow authorities may stream information from the city’s surveillance cameras into the public domain and sell it, according to Kommersant, in one of the contracts for installing cameras.

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