Russia on Tuesday rejected a case by a prominent opposition activist who said Moscow's vast face recognition system was used illegally to identify her and supporters without consent. A court in Moscow told the Interfax news agency that it had "issued a ruling on the termination of administrative proceedings". The case brought by rights activist Alena Popova and Vladimir Milov, a former deputy energy minister and ally of opposition leader Alexei Navalny, comes amid growing critisicm of Russian law enforcement's use of the technology. Popova said she first became suspicious during a court hearing into her solitary picket outside the Russian parliament last year. Footage viewed during the hearing showed the camera singling her out long before she started the picket, she said. "The camera magnified my specific face 32 times," she told AFP when she filed the lawsuit in October. Popova said the use of face recognition algorithms has become the norm in prosecuting the opposition, but no new laws on its application have been created and existing laws on private data protection make it illegal. "We demand to be shown how these algorithms work, where our photos and videos are filed and who can use them," she said. jbr/bmm