Ukraine news latest — Putin using US tech to suppress protests as tyrant aims to quash Russian opposition

VLADIMIR Putin is using US technology to suppress protests as the tyrant aims to quash Russian opposition to the war in Ukraine. Moscow launched one of the world’s largest facial recognition networks back in 2017 consisting of 160,000 cameras with more than 3,000 of them connected to a facial recognition system. According to a Reuters investigation that reviewed more than 2,000 court case records, the cameras have played a massive impact in the arrests of hundreds of anti-government protesters and those opposing the Ukraine war. The facial recognition system, powered by Russian algorithms, uses chips from US firms Nvidia Corp or Intel Corp. Daria Korolenko, a lawyer with OVD-Info, an independent human rights group that monitors repression in Russia said: “It’s a new practice, which is being used to chilling effect, especially in Moscow where protests have been the largest and where people know that they are being watched by facial recognition cameras.” Read our Ukraine war blog below for the latest news…