Edward Slavsquat: “Russia’s Unified Biometric System (UBS), a commercially operated national biometrics database, has been billed as a safe and effective way to identify the proles. But there’s a problem: Many Russians don’t know about the miracle of for-profit biometrics, and the ones who do know about it are not very excited for some weird reason. Obviously this is unacceptable, so TASS (a state-owned media outlet) and VTsIOM (a state-owned polling agency) teamed up to host a biometrics cheerleading event.”
https://edwardslavsquat.substack.com/p/state-agencies-and-friendly-bank