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Russia expands facial-recognition surveillance used against protesters

Human Rights Watch documented Russia's expanding facial-recognition surveillance, including algorithmic processing across Moscow's 125,000-camera network, regional expansion, false detentions, data leaks, and use against peaceful protesters and political opponents.

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CURRENT ASSESSMENT · REVISION 1
TOWARD DOOM52confidence 92/100

Why it moved the index

This is realized consequential AI misuse at government scale: automated identification produced false detentions and enabled political targeting while the surveillance network expanded without effective oversight. Specialized biometric scope bounds the magnitude.

Assessment history

  1. R1
    Toward 52 · confidence 92

    Pass-2 historical omission with an explicit publication clock and documented realized state facial-recognition misuse; no durable title, URL, fingerprint, or substantially identical event collision.

    12 Aug 2026

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  1. DoomBench assesses “Russia expands facial-recognition surveillance used against protesters” as evidence moving toward doom, with magnitude 52 and confidence 92 out of 100 in the misuse and incidents category.

  2. The DoomBench assessment of “Russia expands facial-recognition surveillance used against protesters” is based on reporting from Human Rights Watch and records the editorial rationale, source quality, attribution, and revision history.

  3. DoomBench summarizes “Russia expands facial-recognition surveillance used against protesters” as follows: Human Rights Watch documented Russia's expanding facial-recognition surveillance, including algorithmic processing across Moscow's...

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