Tag: Big Brother

For Moscow’s quarantined, 100,000 cameras are watching

by Victoria LOGUINOVA-YAKOVLEVA Agence France-Presse MOSCOW, Russia (AFP) —A vast and contentious network of facial recognition cameras keeping watch over Moscow is now playing a key role in the battle against the spread of the coronavirus in Russia. The city rolled out the technology just before the epidemic reached Russia, ignoring protests and legal complaints over sophisticated state surveillance. Since last month, thousands of Muscovites have been confined to their homes for 14 days of compulsory […]

Airport official denies “fixer” Mark Taguba’s allegations vs him; says he is not “Big Brother”

(Eagle News) — Appearing for the first time in the Senate blue ribbon committee hearings into the P6.4-billion drug shipment that slipped through Customs express lanes, and into corruption  in the Bureau of Customs, retired Colonel Allen Capuyan denied all allegations against him. Capuyan, the assistant general manager for security and emergency services of the Manila International Airport Authority, said he only met fixer Mark Taguba once, at a lunch “to meet a Customs personnel […]