In Russia, facial recognition technology in metro stations has been used to track and arrest peaceful protesters. 

In Iran, it’s being used to monitor hijab compliance following the recent protests supporting the rights of women not to cover their heads.

Deploying FRT in protests risks normalising surveillance, has a chilling impact on the exercise of our right to protest, and leaves our facial data open to abuse by the police or others. 

 We have been documenting the surveillance technologies governments use to police protests for several years. 

Visit our protest surveillance tracker on our website to learn more: https://privacyinternational.org/examples/tracking-protest-surveillance