{"id":27634,"date":"2020-08-24T13:51:46","date_gmt":"2020-08-24T10:51:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=27634"},"modified":"2025-08-26T22:10:43","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T19:10:43","slug":"moscow-authorities-could-stream-data-from-city-cctv-cameras-to-the-public","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/moscow-authorities-could-stream-data-from-city-cctv-cameras-to-the-public\/","title":{"rendered":"Moscow authorities could stream data from city CCTV cameras to the public."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">Moscow authorities may stream information from the city\u2019s surveillance cameras into the public domain and sell it, Kommersant has found in one of the contracts for installing cameras.<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\\n<\/p>\n<p><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">Under the terms of the <\/span><a href=\\\"https:\/\/zakupki.gov.ru\/epz\/contract\/contractCard\/document-info.html?reestrNumber=2771087800018000104&#038;backUrl=6547d35f-dd95-42b3-b15e-aab76eafdcbd\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\" rel=\\\"noopener noreferrer\\\"><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">contract<\/span><\/a><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\"> from the Moscow Department of Information Technology (DIT), which was obtained by the Moscow Telecommunication Corporation, the latter will install four thousand cameras in hospitals.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\\n<\/p>\n<p><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">Among the information processing purposes listed in the contract, there are two items:<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\\n<\/p>\n<ul>\\n<\/p>\n<li style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\"><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">\u00abproviding access to information to users of the \u0415\u0426\u0425\u0414 [Unified Data Storage and Processing Center], including on a paid basis\u00bb;<\/span><\/li>\n<p>\\n<\/p>\n<li style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\"><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">\u00abbroadcasting information in open access\u00bb on the Internet.<\/span><\/li>\n<p>\\n<\/ul>\n<p>\\n<\/p>\n<p><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">The same aims are set forth in other DIT contracts on transferring data to the \u0415\u0426\u0425\u0414. As the publication found, the data come from at least 25,000 surveillance cameras.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\\n<\/p>\n<p><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">The DIT said that the wording about streaming on the Internet is standard, and that providing access to data in the \u0415\u0426\u0425\u0414 and broadcasting video from hospitals is not planned.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\\n<\/p>\n<p><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">Lawyers, however, note that such formulations threaten Moscow residents\u2019 personal data.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\\n<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">\u00abThe very provision that data may be sold to third parties, while it does not specify to whom or for what purposes, creates an even greater threat of leaks and access to sensitive data by an undefined circle of people. This information could be used for fraud, surveillance and social engineering\u00bb, \u2014<\/span><a href=\\\"https:\/\/roskomsvoboda.org\/62785\/\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\" rel=\\\"noopener noreferrer\\\"><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">said<\/span><\/a><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\"> the head of legal practice at RosKomSvoboda and partner at the Center for Digital Rights, Sarkis Darbinian.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\\n<\/p>\n<p>The DIT press service denied that data from the cameras are sold.<\/p>\n<p>\\n<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u00abInformation that the Moscow DIT plans to sell footage from the city\u2019s CCTV system does not correspond to reality. Access to camera recordings on a commercial basis is not provided and is not planned,\u00bb the press service told TASS in a statement.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\\n<\/p>\n<p>DIT also stressed that access to the \u0415\u0426\u0425\u0414 is provided under sanctioned access for authorised personnel.<\/p>\n<p>\\n<\/p>\n<p>However, Sarkis Darbinian contends that \u2018the DIT is blatantly lying\u2019:<\/p>\n<p>\\n<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u00abWhat the DIT calls sanctioned access is, in fact, an uncontrolled leaky system, in which there is no clear and effective oversight over who uses the system and on what grounds.\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\\n<\/p>\n<p>In July, the dark web saw the sale of access to all Moscow CCTV cameras. ForkLog previously learned from experts how data ends up on the black market.<\/p>\n<p>\\n<\/p>\n<p>Most cameras are equipped with facial recognition. Recently RosKomSvoboda<a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/roskomsvoboda-calls-for-a-moratorium-on-moscows-facial-recognition-system\"><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">demanded<\/span><\/a><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\"> that a moratorium on its use be imposed until the necessary safeguards against abuses are implemented.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\\n<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to ForkLog news on Telegram: <a href=\\\"https:\/\/t.me\/forklogfeed\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\" rel=\\\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\\\">ForkLog Feed<\/a> \u2014 the full news feed, <a href=\\\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\" rel=\\\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\\\">ForkLog<\/a> \u2014 the most important news and polls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Moscow authorities may stream information from the city\u2019s surveillance cameras into the public domain and sell it, according to Kommersant, in one of the contracts for installing cameras.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26216,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,1256,94],"class_list":["post-27634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-moscow","tag-privacy-and-personal-data","tag-roskomsvoboda"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"17","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27634"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27635,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27634\/revisions\/27635"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}