{"id":32029,"date":"2026-03-18T05:55:52","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T04:55:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kaizen-blog.org\/?p=32029"},"modified":"2026-03-18T06:55:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T05:55:14","slug":"berichten-aus-teheran-und-du-weisst-nicht-wer-zuhoert-ein-blick-hinter-die-arbeit-des-kaizen-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kaizen-blog.org\/en\/berichten-aus-teheran-und-du-weisst-nicht-wer-zuhoert-ein-blick-hinter-die-arbeit-des-kaizen-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"Reports from Tehran - and you do not know who is listening. A look behind the work of the Kaizen Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"

The cameras in the metro circle faces. Green, a color that is supposed to be calming. Next to it appear age, gender, recognized emotion, whether someone is wearing glasses, a mask, a beard. All of it in real time, while people pass through turnstiles and think of nothing except the next train. No one looks up. No one notices it. On the screen next to it, the list keeps running, face after face, second after second, without pause, without limit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Use of the FindFace software in a metro station in Tehran is shown. The image has been anonymized to protect the privacy of the individuals depicted.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

The system is called FindFace. It comes from Russia, was purchased quietly in 2019, through shell companies, without public tender, with tax exemption clauses that were not supposed to leave a trace. It can search a billion faces in seconds, knows no technical limits, no temporal ones. Anyone who has been filmed once is recorded. Anyone who is recorded can be picked up later, when the streets are quiet again, when international attention has shifted, when the resources are available and the lists can be processed. Quietly, methodically, without haste. The regime has time because it has the faces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n