The head of the FSB Bortnikov asked the State Duma to adopt the laws on the regulation of the Internet faster

The director of the Federal Security Service, Alexander Bortnikov, at the government hour in the State Duma asked deputies to accelerate the adoption of several bills, including critical information infrastructure, about instant messengers and anonymizers. This was reported by RBC with reference to the participants in the meeting.

According to the head of the State Duma Committee on Information Policy Leonid Levin, the deputies discussed the law on critical information structure with Bortnikov, incidents with a robber virus, the degree of security of the country from hacker threats, import substitution of software, as well as the fight against unlawful content, "including terrorists."

"According to the results of the information that we heard, we will see if there is a need to make amendments and additions to the current laws," said Vasily Piskarev, head of the Committee on Security and Combating Corruption. At the same time, United Russia assured that there was no talk of new prohibitions. “The rights and interests of law -abiding citizens should not be affected and the constitutional principles of protecting a person’s private life are violated,” Piskarev noted.

The meeting was held closed. Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin asked the deputies not to use mobile phones and other means of communication, as well as not to disclose the details of the meeting. During the visit of Bortnikov, the State Duma also turned off Wi-Fi.

In June 2013, Bortnikov said that the Internet serves as an conductor of extremist ideas , and the opposition of this threat from state bodies is insufficient. "Modern practice of the fight against terrorism indicates that an important place in the process of the spread of terrorist threats belongs to the ideology of religious and political extremism. A part of the Internet has become a kind of extremism ideas. Closed groups are created, the activities of sites are activated on which targeted ideological processing of users is carried out, and large-scale work is expanded to involve large-scale workshops. New supporters, ”said the head of the FSB.

On January 27, the State Duma adopted in the first reading a package of government bills on the protection of the safetyof critical information infrastructure of Russia. It will include information systems and information and telecommunication networks of state bodies, as well as automated systems for managing technological processes in the defense industry, in the field of healthcare, transport, communications, credit and financial sphere, energy, atomic, missile and space, metallurgical, chemical, mining industry.

On June 14, the first reading passed the bill on the regulation of messengers . According to the document, users of "information and communication services" must be identified without fail. A number of requirements are established for the owners of messengers. Among them, providing users with the opportunity to abandon unwanted messages, as well as the launch of the cessation function or, on the contrary, the organization of mass mailing at the request of the state. Through messengers, it is forbidden to transmit "information distributed in violation of the law." The Service Administration is obliged, at the request of the state, to block the sending of such messages. For violation of these requirements, messengers are supposed to be blocked.

On June 8, a bill on the ban on the use of anonymizers and VPN for access to blocked sites was submitted to the State Duma. The document proposes to oblige the owners of such services to independently limit their users access to resources from the register of prohibited, otherwise the services themselves are threatened by blocking. Also, according to the project, search engines will have to delete links to prohibited sites from issuing. On Thursday, the State Duma Committee on Inform Policy approved the bill for adoption in the first reading.