Do not disclose

Cellular operators are not required to provide bailiffs with the data of their clients - this decision was made by the Supreme Arbitration Court. As RBC Daily writes, the presidium of the court considered the complaint of the VimpelCom company, which asked to cancel the decisions of lower courts that refused to recognize the bailiff’s decision as illegal. The bailiff, who is the executor of the Office of the Federal Bailiff Service for the Republic of Dagestan, demanding that the company provide data of its clients. VimpelCom insisted that although the Law on Bailiffs states that “information that bodies, organizations, officials and citizens are required to provide to a bailiff may contain information about personal data of individuals,” there are clearly cases when operators are required to provide such information is not outlined, and therefore is not required.

At the same time, operators are not even against providing bailiffs with access to a certain part of client data, the publication writes. But on the condition that the bailiffs will not seize funds from subscriber accounts. Earlier, at a meeting of the heads of the largest Russian mobile operators with the director of the Federal Bailiff Service, Artur Parfenchikov, it was recognized that the withdrawal of funds from accounts is ineffective. And bailiffs may need information about subscriber numbers in order to promptly inform debtors about claims made via SMS.