Russia expands digital surveillance measures as US trial sees AI fire employee

Russian state authorities are expanding digital surveillance and personal data collection. A draft order from Russia's Ministry of Defense would grant military enlistment offices access to citizens' foreign passport details, income records, and bank accounts. Meanwhile, the Ministry of Digital Development has targeted VPN services abusing whitelisted infrastructure, and the Investigative Committee is using biometric AI software to analyze video archives for suspects.

Additionally, documents revealed cryptocurrency exchange Binance shared transaction histories with Russian investigators, leading to terrorism charges against IT worker Yuri Belenky over donations to Ukraine.

In a separate trial in San Francisco, research firm Andon Labs tasked Anthropic's Claude AI model with managing a retail store, where the system terminated a human employee following 17 unexcused absences.

Sources: Mediazona, NEXTA, Point, The Insider, Verstka.