Media: Moscow mayor's office can broadcast data from surveillance cameras

The publication drew attention to the fact that in the contracts of the capital’s Department of Information Technology,

posted on the government procurement website, the purposes of installing cameras include “providing access to information to users of the Unified Center for Storage and Processing of Data.”

According to the documentation, the contract is designed forinstallation of 4 thousand cameras in hospitals. It was won by the Moscow Telecommunications Corporation, which will install cameras on the territory of 539 hospitals, and then organize video transmission to a single data storage and processing center (DSCD). Such goals are specified in ten installation contracts a total of about 25,000 cameras.

DIT informed the publication that these formulationsstandard and are used in all government contracts for the provision of such services. The department also stressed that they do not plan to provide access to video from cameras on a reimbursable basis.

According to the head of the legal practice of Roskomsvoboda, Sarkis Darbinyan, such formulations may endanger the security of personal data of Moscow residents.

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