Moscow held back on requiring digital bar codes to leave home, but other regions are pushing ahead with mobile tracking.
, acknowledged that “a huge number of questions arose” about requiring a QR-code pass to move around the city. And opposition politicians and rights groups pushed back hard.Daria Besedina, a Moscow opposition lawmaker, said the measures were akin to a “digital concentration camp.”Moscow’s about-face on the QR codes is more than a simple change of plans.
Russia’s confirmed novel coronavirus cases have multiplied in the past two weeks. Officials said there are 4,731 confirmed cases as of Saturday and 43 deaths. “We think it can lead to unauthorized access and therefore to the mass infringement of people’s privacy,” said Sarkis Darbinyan of Roskomsvoboda, a digital rights group. “This is a concern right now in the Russian society.”
said it would entail “building up an entirely new huge database from scratch and then getting all people living in Moscow to provide their personal data to that database.”
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