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Stephanie Nowers

4:44 - 5:05

"So your face is now your ticket to move around, and they pair that with the cameras and they can track you. So if you want to get out of the draft in Russia because you don't want to go fight in Ukraine, you used to be able to just kind of flee to the country. It just to what one of the speakers said, there's a lot of potential for abuse in it."

“So your face is now your ticket to move around, and they pair that with the cameras and they can track you. So if you want to get out of the draft in Russia because you don't want to go fight in Ukraine, you used to be able to just kind of flee to the country. It just to what one of the speakers said, there's a lot of potential for abuse in it.”
Speaker
Stephanie Nowers
Timestamp
4:44 – 5:05
Community
Alaska News
Location
Mat-Su Borough
Captured at
September 15, 2026

From the transcript

And there's a story in the New York Times called The New Moscow, a digital Utopia Doubling as a Surveillance Trap. And it's about in Russia how they're using biometric data, so facial data, and in China as well, where you use that to pay your bus fare and everything else. So your face is now your ticket to move around, and they pair that with the cameras and they can track you. So if you want to get out of the draft in Russia because you don't want to go fight in Ukraine, you used to be able to just kind of flee to the country. It just to what one of the speakers said, there's a lot of potential for abuse in it.