Yandex NV
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Yandex NV, through its Russian subsidiaries, develops and sells facial recognition technology deployed for state surveillance. The company’s technology has been integrated into systems at Russian land borders. Furthermore, Yandex operates the Toloka crowdsourcing platform, which is used to train artificial intelligence models, including those for surveillance applications such as facial recognition. These activities directly enable and supply Russia’s domestic surveillance infrastructure.
The company’s core operations remain deeply embedded in the Russian market despite its Dutch corporate structure. While Yandex NV has announced a restructuring to separate its Russian assets, the surveillance technologies developed and sold by its subsidiaries continue to function as integral components of government monitoring systems.
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