157.5 exabytes of information will accumulate on the servers of Russian operators in the third year of the law on mandatory data storage.

157.5 exabytes of information will accumulate on the servers of Russian telecom operators in the third year of the law on mandatory data storage. Such data was presented by the company Giprosvyaz, controlled by Rostelecom, at a meeting of the temporary commission of the Federation Council for the development of the information society, writes . Kommersant

According to experts, the total cost of Russian operators to implement the requirements of the bill during the first three years from the moment of its adoption will reach about 4 trillion rubles. At the same time, Giprosvyaz draws attention to the obviously meaningless nature of these costs - according to the company’s estimates, by 2017, up to 50% of the traffic of Russian operators will be transmitted in encrypted form.

One exabyte is equal to 10 bytes to the eighteenth power. In 2006, IDC estimated the total amount of digital data produced worldwide in a year at 161 exabytes (three times more than all the books ever created by humanity).

Due to the colossal volume of information transmitted by users, if the bill on mandatory data storage is adopted in its current form, Russian operators will have to purchase hard drives and other equipment in huge quantities and build special storage facilities. “But the traffic will not only need to be captured and sent for storage, it will be necessary to create a system that can analyze and catalog the data. There are no such systems in the world, it must be Russian know-how,” explained one of the commission members.

Amendments to the federal laws “On Communications” and “On Information, Information Technologies and Information Protection”, obliging operators and providers to store all data exchanged between users for three years - part of the “anti-terrorism” bill prepared by Deputy Irina Yarova and Senator Victor Ozerov. The document was submitted to the State Duma in early April 2016. Last Friday, parliamentarians adopted it in the first reading. According to the authors of the bill, it is aimed primarily at combating terrorism. Other amendments from the “anti-terrorist” package introduce the possibility of a pre-trial ban on leaving Russia, and the Criminal Code is supplemented with the article “Failure to report a crime.” As part of the same fight against terrorism, the bill obliges Russian operators to store almost all Internet traffic of users for three years, and mobile operators - recordings of conversations and all information exchanged between subscribers: voice messages, images, video files. At the same time, operators will be required to provide this data at the request of the authorities.

Source: Kommersant .