Stephanie Nowers
4:24 - 5:00
"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."
“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.”
- Speaker
- Stephanie Nowers
- Timestamp
- 4:24 – 5:00
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Mat-Su Borough
- Captured at
- September 15, 2026
From the transcript
And you don't have to think hard about AI, facial recognition, and where you might go with that. 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.
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