Play, play, tell me

The Russian Security Council instructed the Ministry of Communications and the FSB by June 1, 2018 to develop a law on the mandatory identification of users of social networks and online games. This was reported by RBC with reference to a copy of the Protocol of the Council of People's Commissars, signed by President Vladimir Putin on November 5.

On online games and social networks, the requirements that messengers must obey from January 1, 2018 will be extended. Site administrations will have to identify the user by mobile phone number, which is tied to a passport in Russia. Thus, game sites are proposed to equate the organizers of the dissemination of information.

According to the source of the publication in the game market, new restrictions may be due to the fact that game chats can be used for hidden communication. Not only extremists or terrorists can communicate there, but also the organizers of the protest.

The head of the game direction Mail.ru Group Vasily Maguryan noted that now the player can be identified by e -mail or social networks, which, in turn, are tied to a mobile phone.

"The leadership of our country has a strange idea that in order to combat terrorism, you need to control any channels of people's communication. Tens of thousands of games a year are produced all over the world, a significant part of them contain chats in which players can communicate. How are they going to force all developers in the world to fulfill the requirements of Russian legislation, when the share of the Russian market from the world is about 2 percent?" - said Sergey Orlov, founder of Sergei Orlovsky, founder Nival game developer.

Representatives of the Presidential Administration, the Government, the Ministry of Communications and the FSB did not comment on the initiative of the Security Council.

On July 30, President Vladimir Putin signed the law on control over instant messengers . Users of these services will have to be identified without fail. 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. In addition, authorities receive the right to block the transfer of messages "in cases and the manner determined by the government." Thus, it will be possible to prohibit the distribution of absolutely any information through messengers.

On October 16, the peace judge of the judicial section of 383 of the Meshchansky district of Moscow, Julia Danilchik, fined the Telegram Messenger LLP (London) for 800 thousand rubles . The reason was the company's refusal to execute the FSB request to provide information to decode user messages. Judge Danilchik found Telegram guilty of committing an offense provided for in paragraph 2.1 of Article 13.31 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (failure to fulfill the information distribution by the organizer of information to provide information necessary for decoding electronic messages).