Editing Closed-circuit television (section)

=== In Russia ===
[[File:Soviet Motorised CCTV camera - panoramio.jpg|thumb|Soviet motorized CCTV camera]]
In 2017, in Russia, the Moscow network included 160,000 CCTV cameras and 95 percent of residential buildings; over 3,500 Russian cameras were connected to the General Centre for Data Storage and Processing.<ref>{{Cite web |date=29 September 2017 |title=Moscow has one of the world's largest CCTV systems with face recognition |url=https://www.mos.ru/en/news/item/30105073/ |website=mos.ru}}</ref> Video recordings are used to solve 70 percent of offenses and crimes.<ref>{{Cite news |last=McGoogan |first=Cara |date=29 September 2017 |title=Facial recognition fitted to 5,000 CCTV cameras in Moscow |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2017/09/29/facial-recognition-fitted-5000-cctv-cameras-moscow/ |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220111/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2017/09/29/facial-recognition-fitted-5000-cctv-cameras-moscow/ |archive-date=11 January 2022 |newspaper=The Telegraph |via=www.telegraph.co.uk}}{{cbignore}}</ref> In 2024, there are over 1 million video surveillance cameras in Russia.<ref>{{Cite web |date=March 13, 2024 |title=Шадаев сообщил, что в России работает более 1 млн камер видеонаблюдения |trans-title=Shadayev reported that there are more than 1 million CCTV cameras in operation in Russia |url=https://tass.ru/ekonomika/20219873 |access-date=2024-12-18 |website=[[TASS]] |language=ru}}</ref> About 230,000 are in use in Moscow alone.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Создание городской системы видеонаблюдения |trans-title=Creation of a city video surveillance system |url=https://um.mos.ru/exhibits/sozdanie-gorodskoy-sistemy-videonablyudeniya/ |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20240605174427/https://um.mos.ru/exhibits/sozdanie-gorodskoy-sistemy-videonablyudeniya/ |archive-date=2024-06-05 |access-date=2024-12-18 |website=um.mos.ru |language=ru}}</ref> According to data from the Russian Minister for Digital Development, [[Maksut Shadayev]], one in three of all CCTVs in Russia were connected to a [[facial recognition system]]. A leaked document revealed that the president of Russia, [[Vladimir Putin]], called on the [[Federal Security Service|Russian security services]] to fund "a massive AI-based surveillance apparatus". The spending of over {{Currency|115 million|USD|passthrough=yes}} was planned for the system in 2024–2026.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Gielewska |first=Anna |date=2024-03-27 |title=Kremlin Leaks: How Putin's Regime is Building AI Surveillance Operations |url=https://vsquare.org/kremlin-leaks-russia-putin-ai-surveillance-facial-recognition-ntechlab/ |access-date=2024-12-18 |website=VSquare.org |language=en-US}}</ref>