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The new bill of Yarovoy-Ozerov contradicting the Constitution of the Russian Federation bears the risk of leakage of databases of Russians to the black market
On April 7, on April 7 to the State Duma, the bill “On Amending Certain Legislative Acts of the Russian Federation regarding the establishment of additional measures to counteract terrorism and ensuring public security” by deputy Irina Yarova and Senator Viktor Ozerov, already recognized by the Presidential Council of Human Rights (HRC) contradicting the Constitution of the Russian Federation, is also fraught with leakage of personal data of Russians, including Russians correspondence, photographs, videos and posts on social networks, on the “black market” of electronic databases, which lives its own life in Russia since the appearance of these same databases, i.e. Since the end of the 90s.
As you know, the current versions of these documents oblige operators of communication and Internet providers to cooperate with law enforcement agencies as part of the system of operational-search measures. Companies should provide law enforcement officers with information about their subscribers, their services and make it possible to listen to negotiations between their users. The storage of information about subscribers in the law is not directly said. However, in 2005, the government approved the new rules of business interaction with the power block, which states that within six months, information about users and their services should be stored by the operator or provider. In any case, we are only talking about the numbers and duration of conversations or Internet sessions, but not about the content that formally is protected by 23 articles of the Constitution, guaranteeing the right to inviolability of private life, personal and family secrets. The authors of the bill expect to oblige all communication operators and Internet providers for three years to store data on the territory of Russia “On the facts of receiving, transmitting, delivery and (or) vocational and text messages, including their content, as well as images, sound or other users of communication services”. The relevant information arrays will have to be submitted to law enforcement agencies upon request. All this fully applies to the blogosphere and social networks.
The parliamentarians want to put the function of a kind of “depository” of other people's secrets on providers and operators. This can lead to the fact that the risk of leaks of not just personal data, but information about the most secret secrets of personal life, will grow exponentially, since no one has canceled the human factor yet. Cases of leakage of databases of Russians have been known for a long time. At different times, the markets of the traffic police, subscribers of private companies and even passport data were offered in the markets and in the underground passages-in 2006, 16 million Russians who had ever lived or lived in the capital could purchase for 5 thousand rubles. The base was shaken by the Moscow Economic Security Center, which, judging by the name, should just protect this information.
SecURIT CEO of InfaCURIT Infaration, Andrei Raevsky claimed that the information is the main factor - this is human:
“Taking the necessary information is simple-either it is the banal theft of magnetic tapes on which the information is located, or it downloads it through a USB port using flash drives, MP3-players.”
In the winter of 2004, the base of the Federal Tax Service on the income of Muscovites and residents of the Moscow Region for 1999-2002 appeared in the free sale. All information fit on four DVD disks, the cost of which was estimated at $ 300. Later, similar discs for 2003 and 2004 were thrown into the markets. In 2011, the Internet was published on the Internet with MTS subscribers with names, surnames and phone numbers, as well as, according to some users, addresses and passport data. In the same year, SMS (along with the number of addressees) sent by MegaFon subscribers appeared in the open -domestic access to the Yandex search engine.
In the same 2006, the Central Bank databases from 2003 to the first quarter of 2005 can be bought everywhere. One of the analysts of information security on anonymity, he told how theft of database in the Central Bank was theft:
“There is a company that has been organizing the technical support of the Central Bank for several years. So, when working, commissioning networks or changing technical support, employees of this company have access to information. And then the work of technology. Moreover, for the Central Bank, this is not a secret. Everyone knows everything. Why is this happening? This can only be found out from the leadership of the Bank of Russia. ”
In 2012, it was possible to purchase databases of users of discount services; Traffic police (cars, rights, fines); customs bases, or foreign economic activity (external economic activity); data of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for convicts, car agents, criminal elements; credit stories, delay in loans, alimony data; The databases of the Unified State Register of Legal Entities (company founders, changes in registration data, etc.-the databases are open, but nevertheless, they were sold to any counterclaim); Databases of the medical insurance fund (in addition to the data contained in other databases (name, address, passport data), you can find out where and when a person worked); data of users of social networks together with phones, emails and other information; Mobile numbers along with passport data, date of birth, place of residence, “merged” from communication operators.
In early 2015, there was a loud scandal related to the leak and selling secret databases of the Federal Drug Control Service ( FSKN ). They indicated not only the addresses of drug addicts, surnames and photos of drug addicts, but also personal data of the informants, as well as ordinary citizens who called the FSKN confidence.
Not so long ago, we wrote about the auctions of debtors at which banks sell collectors data on debtors. True, unlike the above, this case of data transfer is formally legal, although it is contrary to the constitution (and which law does not contradict it now?), But here no one is safe from the fact that third parties will not want to resell your data to fourth persons. All the same "human factor."
Two years ago, it was reported that when paying electronic tickets on the Russian Railways website, more than 200 thousand bank cards were stolen. This list can be continued. In such a situation, experts say to increase the volume and shelf life of personal information, this is just a roulette game. It will seem very seductive to someone to buy photos from the personal correspondence of stars, competitors, politicians. You can pay decent money for this. A new black market will arise, incomparable in scale with banal trading bases in crossings.
About the same that the initiative of parliamentarians will cost mobile companies and Internet providers on which the load of data storage will fall into tidy amounts, which means they will most likely compensate for this at the expense of subscribers, and more than once were discussed by experts and specialists in this field. Even if the expenses nevertheless take on the state, it will still be our money collected from taxes, and they will be taken out of the piggy bank designed for roads or education, or some other segment of his life for an ordinary Russian.
So the council of the deputies who will come on this day to consider the Yarovo-Ozerov bill is to run through the flea markets, where they sell CDs, as well as to grab calculators with them. Maybe someone will find himself, and the calculations will make the right ones.
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