Sharminka in the eye

The American says: "I can go to the White House and shout that the US president is a fool. And I will not be anything." “Think about it,” Russian replies, “I can also go to the Kremlin and shout that the US president is a fool, and there will be nothing to me either.”

I would not remember this bearded joke from the Soviet past if life itself had not retold it in a new interpretation. In May of this year, Edward Snowden went out and publicly stated that US intelligence services violate the rights of American citizens, getting illegal access to their personal data and other confidential information. Having supported Snowden's initiative, a member of the Federation Council Ruslan Gattarov went out and also boldly said that American Internet companies violate the rights of citizens, including Russian, illegally using their personal data.

In July, Gattarov, the former head of the “Young Guard”, closed the Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika on Facebook, who, according to Gattarov, is not known why he collects personal data of Russian citizens, and even reserves the right to transfer them to third parties. In conclusion, Gattarov sang an old song about the main thing: Facebook does not have an official representation in the Russian Federation and is managed by the Facebook Inc. Corporation, registered in the United States, in the United States. It sounded as a sentence to spies and interventionists.

On August 19, the former young guard attacked the company of Google, which, according to him, reserves the right to access the correspondence of users of his postal service Gmail and use the data received from this correspondence. The fact that the company is also American is not even worth talking about.

The whole charm of this situation is not that American companies and special services may actually abuse the right to access personal information, but who acts as a critic of this system here. Well, exactly the moron from the joke that goes to the Kremlin shout about the American fool-president. I would shout about ours!

Russian intelligence services have easy access to personal data of citizens and by the judicial order, and without it. The SORM system implemented in 1996 and 2000 (a system of technical means to ensure the functions of operational-in-laws) allows you to listen to telephone conversations of citizens and monitor their activity on the Internet. And we do not need any Russian Snowden to expose the secret operations of the special services: we have nothing secret in this! Everything is done impudently and openly.

Article 64 of the Federal Law "On Communication" is called "on the obligations of operators of communication during operational-search measures and the implementation of investigative actions." This article says that "communication operators are obliged to provide authorized state bodies engaged in operational-search activities or ensure the security of the Russian Federation, information about users of communication services and about the services of communication services, as well as other information necessary to fulfill the tasks assigned to these bodies, in cases established by federal laws."

Ruslan Gattarov justifies his collision with Google by the fact that "in accordance with Article 2 of the Constitution of the Russian Federation, the recognition, compliance and protection of the rights and freedoms of man and citizen is the obligation of the state." That's because a person’s scope is defending the rights and freedoms in Russia, cancel the unlawful laws, control the activities of domestic special services - work is not clear! But no: the eternal newlyword Gattarov carefully examines the sorrinka in the eye of a strange eye, not noticing the logs in his own.

By the way, when compared, there really is a sorinka and a log. In fact, Edward Snowden most likely rights, therefore, the American authorities took up arms against him. But, with all his correctness, did anyone have heard at least once that the American intelligence agencies who received illegal access to personal information helped someone to select someone else's business, compromised a political competitor or sold someone’s personal data to the bandits? That is, they did what became the routine activity of Russian special services.

Moreover, all our personal data - from mobile phones and personal cars to passport data and income information - are neatly collected on discs that everyone can buy on the central streets of large Russian cities. And if you are too lazy to climb the collapse, these disks are brisk young people at the intersection while you are sitting in your car in front of a red signal of the traffic light. But the merchants of other people's secrets are everywhere a green light.

Ruslan Gattarova is of little interest to how personal data are sold by tax inspections, the traffic police, passport tables and other state institutions. These are our institutions, one might say, their own. Another thing is American companies, from which all the world all around the world and nothing good. Here, parliamentary radiators for our rights make a rack and rush into battle with a softer, stuck in the eyes of hated Americans.