“A pair of troubling reports about plans for intensive biometric surveillance seem drawn from the nightmares of privacy advocates. The premier of a South Africa province that includes Johannesburg and Pretoria has proposed blanketing the poorest areas in the province. In Russia, meanwhile, Moscow’s municipal IT department is hoping to interest the city politicians in building a centralized facial recognition data storage facility. All data harvested from Moscow and surveillance cameras around the nation would flow to the new repository.”