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From Quito to Nairobi, Moscow to Detroit, hundreds of municipalities have installed cameras equipped with FRT, sometimes promising to feed data to central command centres as part of 'safe city' or 'smart city' solutions to crime. [...]Lee Tien, a senior staff attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation in San Francisco, California, says that one of the main reasons large technology firms - whether in China or elsewhere - get involved in supplying AI surveillance technology to governments is that they expect to collect a mass of data that could improve their algorithms. The Russian capital rolled out a city-wide video surveillance system in January, using software supplied by Moscow-based technology firm NtechLab. In May, the chief executive of London's Heathrow airport said it would trial thermal scanners with facial-recognition cameras to identify potential virus carriers.