Muscovites will be able to pay for travel on the bus through the facial recognition system

Muscovites will be able to pay for travel in city transport through the face recognition system. This became known on August 10, 2021 from the materials of the corresponding tender placed by the Center for Traffic Management (DPC). The competition was won by Intellectual Social Systems LLC, which under the contract will receive about 329 million rubles.

According to Kommersant, with reference to the description of the purchase, it will be possible to upload your photo to the Moscow Transport application, which is a navigation system with the ability to call a taxi, rent a scooter, bicycle, etc., with the help of which the program will form an impression of the user's face and link a bank card to it to pay for the fare.

Residents of Moscow will be able to pay for travel on the bus through the facial recognition system

The data center told the newspaper that "thanks to the new function, passengers will have a completely contactless way to pay for travel using facial recognition technology in urban transport." The center also emphasized that all user data will be stored in a secure circuit, access to which is limited, and payment information - in banks.

User biometric data is stored in a secure loop, no one has access to them, and banks are engaged in storing payment data, explained in the data center. The technology is already being tested in the Moscow metro, the organization recalled. Since July 31, 2021, the Moscow Metro launched fare payment using facial recognition in an experimental manner. The experiment involves 1000 passengers.

Experts interviewed by the publication noted that in order for the project to work successfully, it would be necessary to replace all cameras in buses and develop the latest ways to protect personal data from leaks. The risk of stealing a copy of biometric casts can be minimized using quantum cryptography, but it still remains that it will nervous users, said Valentin Makarov, president of the Russoft Association.^[1]

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