Report: Georgia Has Used Russian Facial Recognition System to Identify Protesters

Georgia has been using Polyface, a facial recognition system developed by the Moscow-based company Papillion AO, which is under Western sanctions, to identify protesters during pro-European demonstrations, according to a report by AlgorithmWatch, a non-governmental organization based in Berlin and Zurich. The report says that Georgia’s Interior Ministry has been procuring the system since 2013, …

By Civil.ge