{"id":4262,"date":"2025-05-29T05:00:39","date_gmt":"2025-05-29T05:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/29\/location-tracking-app-for-foreigners-in-moscow-html\/"},"modified":"2025-05-29T05:00:39","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T05:00:39","slug":"location-tracking-app-for-foreigners-in-moscow-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/29\/location-tracking-app-for-foreigners-in-moscow-html\/","title":{"rendered":"Location Tracking App for Foreigners in Moscow"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div>Location Tracking App for Foreigners in Moscow<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Russia is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/government\/russia-to-enforce-location-tracking-app-on-all-foreigners-in-moscow\/\">proposing a rule<\/a> that all foreigners in Moscow install a tracking app on their phones.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Using a mobile application that all foreigners will have to install on their smartphones, the Russian state will receive the following information:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Residence location\n<\/li>\n<li>Fingerprint\n<\/li>\n<li>Face photograph\n<\/li>\n<li>Real-time geo-location monitoring <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This isn\u2019t the first time we\u2019ve seen this. Qatar <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.com\/2022\/11\/11\/world_cup_security\/\">did it<\/a> in 2022 around the World Cup:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cAfter accepting the terms of these apps, moderators will have complete control of users\u2019 devices,\u201d he continued. \u201cAll personal content, the ability to edit it, share it, extract it as well as data from other apps on your device is in their hands. Moderators will even have the power to unlock users\u2019 devices remotely.\u201d <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    Bruce Schneier<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.schneier.com\/blog\/archives\/2025\/05\/location-tracking-app-for-foreigners-in-moscow.html\">Go to bruce schneier<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Location Tracking App for Foreigners in Moscow Russia is proposing a rule that all foreigners in Moscow install a tracking app on their phones. Using a mobile application that all foreigners will have to install on their smartphones, the Russian state will receive the following information: Residence location Fingerprint Face photograph Real-time geo-location monitoring This [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,82,317,340,86,1],"tags":[87],"class_list":["post-4262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bruce-schneier","category-geolocation","category-russia","category-smartphones","category-tracking","category-uncategorized","tag-bruce-schneier"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4262"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4262\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}