INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Unified Biometric System (UBS), which is accessible to the police and intelligence services, was created in 2018 to allow the use of facial
There is also no transparency around the circumstances under which, for example, the Interior Ministry or Federal Security Service can
million biometric identifiers by 2024, is estimated by the Central Bank to have a total of 236,400 entries.Russia's Rostelecom state
telecoms provider operates the UBS under the supervision of the Central Ban and the Communications Ministry.
