People in Moscow are getting wrongfully fined by a quarantine app that demands selfies

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• Moscow authorities are making COVID-19 patients download a "social monitoring" app to make sure they are abiding by quarantine orders.
• Human Rights Watch reports the app has been dishing out wrongful fines, partly because it demands users send their selfies.
• The app sends push notifications to demand the selfies, but sometimes sends them in the middle of the night when users are asleep. It then hands them an automatic fine when they fail to respond.
• The app also seems to be quite buggy in general, freezing up when users try to send off their selfies.
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Moscow authorities have been issuing hundreds and possibly thousands of wrongful fines to citizens for failing to take selfies in the middle of the night.

Human Rights Watch reports Moscow citizens are being falsely accused by the city's official quarantine app of breaking lockdown rules.

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