In the Moscow metro, the possibility of paying with your face has been activated, through a facial recognition system.
Facial recognition is increasingly present in our society. Although the European Union tries to set some limits, it has long since reached our cities and there are countries where it is used in daily life, although cases like Mercadona show the problems accompanying him.
The Moscow metro is one of the latest examples. In this city, a service called Face Pay has been activated to pay without having to show anything but your face. Its deployment is being massive when settling in 240 metro stations, according The Guardian.
To activate Face Pay the procedures are very simple and a application called Mosmetro in which you have to add a photo, the metro card and the bank card. Once the profile is approved, the metro can be accessed just by bringing your face close to the devices.
According to statements by the mayor of Moscow, Sergei Sobyanin, “Now all passengers can pay for the trip without taking out their phone, Troika or bank card“We clarify that the Troika is a card used for public transport in the city.
How could it be otherwise, the news has been greeted with mistrust by many when assessing what can be done with the information collected, even more so in a country where civil rights are often in dispute.
From the Moscow Department of Information Technology they have reported that photographs sent to the system will not be crossed with the police to avoid suspicions.
In addition, it also ensures that all the data will be encrypted with the highest security thanks to the GIS ETSHD system (Moscow Unified Data Storage and Processing Center).
All this is just a sign of the times: despite the controversies, some technologies continue to expand unstoppably and citizens have to learn to live with them.