Social Effects of Digital Urban Policies: The Moscow Experience in the Global Context

Abstract

This review article e ines privacy as a key issue that arises when urban digital policies collide with residents’ lifeworlds. The authors describe the different effects of privacy that characterize people's digital behavior and their attitudes to new technologies—the privacy paradox, digital escapism, apathy, and privacy cynicism. A comparative analysis is made of international and Russian experiences (primarily using the example of Moscow) in using such technologies as QR codes, face recognition, and digital participatory platforms. The authors conclude that the contradiction between technocratic digital practices of urban environment management, which are inherently vertically organized, and the horizontal practices of individual self-organization, is currently in a state of fragile equilibrium.