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Calculate everyone by IP
Before our eyes, the Ministry of Communications and security forces directly cancel the action of the 23rd article of the Constitution. What will this lead to?
The Ministry of Communications prepared a resolution with a list of data on Internet users, which “organizers of the distribution of information” (Ori) will have to be stored during the year in accordance with the “Yarovoye package” and which will be required to be represented by law enforcement agencies. The list turned out to be impressive: it includes the user login, the date of his birth, the real name and the full passport data, the address, the list of languages that the user speaks, and even a list of his relatives. “Spring package” should entirely enter into force on July 1, 2018.
Thus, the Ministry of Communications and the security forces supervising this law directly cancel the action of the 23rd article of the Constitution, which protects the secret of correspondence and makes exceptions only for cases when law enforcement agencies have a court decision. The fact that Russian social networks are working with special services and are transparent to them are not news, but now everything will be extremely simplified - any reason for the representative of the special services automatically receives all your personal information.
For reference
What data the state wants to receive from instant messengers and social networks
List
Full name
Nickname network
Date of birth and other passport data
Contact details: phone, IP, email
location
List of languages that the user speaks
List of relatives
Circle of communication
files that I transmitted by Internet
Audio and video recording of conversations
Data on the Interior Payments
In this context, the efforts of Roskomnadzor to include large social networks and instant messengers in the Ori Register become clear and meaningless at first glance - now there are 89 positions. Requirements for total monitoring of users in the interests of special services formulated by the Ministry of Communications are not in effect on the entire Internet, but only for the companies officially registered in the register. Therefore, first you include, for example, Telegram in the register, and then legally demanding from it the passport data of users.
Now such a tragicomic story unfolds around the world's largest Snapchat messenger, oriented towards teenagers. Roskomnadzor demanded from Snapchat registration in the register, but the messenger of Russian officials was ignored. Then in Roskomnadzor they asked to clarify whether they have the correct contact details of Snapchat. The company confirmed the correctness of the data, and Roskomnadzor immediately published a release about a big victory - the inclusion of a messenger in the register. Of course, the Law on the ban on the VPN that does not cooperate with the Russian authorities will have to go to the place here.
But the disaster will not happen. Apparently, the number of criminal cases for extremism will increase, cases of persecution of the opposition for information transmitted on the network will be fought. At the same time, large Western players, such as Facebook, will not comply with the requirements of the Russian authorities, as they do not fulfill them now (the law on the storage of personal data in the Russian Federation). Some sites will block, as it has already happened to LinkedIn and Zello, others will be blackmailed-like Wikipedia and Telegram.
Citizens who still want to use free Internet will find a method for this-although it is unlikely to be cheap or simple.
The cybernetic civil war unleashed by Russian officials will grow,
Moreover, for some IT companies, the fight against Russian censorship will become a new market niche.
The worst of all in the current situation is perhaps two things.
Firstly, Russian social networks, leaving their users alone with a comrade major, will gradually lose the market-so officials will once again support the domestic manufacturer. Secondly, the interests of the privacy and in general of the human dignity of Russian citizens will best protect American companies on the Internet, and by no means a Russian state, which is quite a shame.