Over the past two years, the Georgian government has built a comprehensive facial recognition enforcement system procured by a company with ties to the Russian intelligence service FSB. Protestors were remotely identified months after the events took place and charged with heavy fines. This story follows several people caught inside this scenario – ordinary people realising their presence at a demonstration is now a permanent, reconstructable data record. ➡️ Read now: https://algorithmwatch.org/en/russian-surveillance-face-recognition-georgia