The Kremlin restricted parts of a special surveillance system protecting Russian President Vladimir Putin and his closest aides amid fears that adversaries could use advanced AI-enabled tools to track and target officials. The Financial Times (FT), citing two people familiar with the matter, said the measures were prompted by concerns that intelligence techniques similar to those used against Iranian officials could be replicated in Russia, potentially enabling foreign services to pinpoint the movements and meetings of senior leadership.JOIN US ON TELEGRAMFollow our coverage of the war on the @Kyivpost_official. The important new development, according to the article, is the ability to collect information on the complex behavior of individuals or groups of people through the ability to parse huge amounts of data, including public and private CCTV (closed-circuit television) video. H2:: Cameras temporarily shut down and hardened According to the report, the system – separate from Moscow’s wider network of nearly 300,000 city surveillance cameras – was temporarily shut down and later reactivated only after engineers worked to isolate it from the internet and close potential vulnerabilities. “The Russians already had major concerns about Putin’s personal safety, especially the risk from Ukraine’s intelligence services, who have penetrated traffic cameras in Russia,” the FT article reads. Ukrainian intelligence services are also believed to have used mobile phone location data to help target senior Russian military officials in Moscow.