Will the new head of the Ministry of Cyphra Maksut Shadaev be given to the personal data of Russians to the security forces?

Last week, the Minister of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Communications appointed Vice President of Rostelecom on digital platforms of Maksuta Shadayev. Almost immediately, the new minister was suspected of ensuring the security forces to ensure access to any data from Russians without a court decision, and his deputy became Lyudmila Bokova-an ex-senator and developer of laws on the sovereign Internet, about insulting power on the Web and the spread of fake news. "New Gazeta" asked experts what can be expected from the work of Shadaev in a new position in the government.

At a meeting of the working group of the State Council for Digital Economics on Monday, Maksut Shadaev said that by 2024 all authorized employees engaged in operational-search activities should receive online access to state data, mobile operators and Internet services, Vedomosti on January 29 told.

Now, for access to personal data of Russians, the security forces must obtain a court permission. This restriction is and is so formal, but at least a little restraints law enforcement agencies, says lawyer Sarkis Darbinyan.

“If the security forces will open extrajudge access to such data, then the number of abuses and cases of data sales will only increase. This poses huge threats for the rights of Russian citizens to privacy, to the secret of private life and for the secret of communication, ”warns Darbinese.

However, Later, Shadaev himself said that he was misunderstood, and the Minzifra does not propose to expand the powers of the security forces in terms of access to personal data of Russians. According to him, we are only talking about getting away from paper requests and using digital infrastructure to receive data.

“A young professional

The newly interviewed experts say that, unlike his predecessor, the new Minister of Communications has an IT-BECGRUAN and knows the industry well.

“When the Minister was appointed [Konstantin] Noskova, who, like his team, was neither an ITSHNIK nor a signalman, the Ministry of Civil Academy lost the IT-directiveness: the industry wondered why people who themselves do not understand anything,” says the director of the ANO ANFOCALITY IVAN FILL.

“Everything was done very unprofessional. The results of this work are still incomprehensible. ”

“And the most loud project -“ Digital Economy ” - was like a patchwork blanket, smeared according to state programs. I will not be surprised if this project is eliminated or completely rebuilt. ”

Shadaev, on the contrary, devoted his whole life to the Internet and digitalization related to the state, says Ilya Shumanov, deputy director of the Center for Anti -Corruption Research and Initiatives of Transpensers of International - P.

“He worked with state top managers: he was an adviser to Leonid Reiman’s Minister of Communications, then supervised the electronic parliament project, was the right hand of the head of the presidential administration Sergei Naryshkin on the Internet and social networks, and later worked in the government of the Moscow region, where he was engaged in the same direction. He is evaluated as a young professional who will finish what he did not do [Deputy Prime Minister Maxim] Akimov in digitalization. ”

In particular, Shadaev proposed reducing to three hours a year, which the average Russian spends on communication with the authorities, and also promised that

Four years later, each citizen will be able to access all data about himself, which the authorities have in the public office of public services.

Flying notes that Shadaev “quite successfully” introduced various kinds of projects in the Moscow region: in 2014, he took the post of Minister of State, Information Technology and Communications in the region, and two years later he became deputy chairman of the regional government. In the Moscow region, the name Shadaev is associated with the services related to the services for business, the introduction of feedback systems from citizens and the regional monitoring system.

According to the director of the Center for IT Research and Expertise of the RANEPA Mikhail Broud-Zolotarev, Shadaev is a “smart, energetic and very sociable person” who can independently write a document, come up with a concept, formulate an approach. “Shadaev knows how to look at the processes of providing public services through the eyes of the user, and not just through the eyes of the authorities.”

“Potentially, this is a person who can do a lot in the industry,” says the expert.

The slope in the sovereignty

However, the director of the non -profit organization "Internet Protection Society" Mikhail Klimarev doubts that the new minister will achieve serious success in the niva of the digitalization of the government.

“In order to implement the“ Digital Economy ”project, the ministry should be at the head of the ministry, that is, a person who has weight and authority that can lead people. Shadaev does not know how to do this. He is a good professional, but he is obviously assigned a technical role, ”Klimarev is sure.

The main decisions in the industry are made by the head of Roskomnadzor Alexander Zharov and come from the departments that are subordinate to him, the IT consultant of the FBK, the owner of the TGVPN proxy, agrees, Vladislav Zdolnikov.

“Any person who will be appointed to the post of head of the Ministry of Communications will be the only task - to monopolize the communication market in Russia.”

“It is no coincidence that Shadaev is connected with Rostelecom,” Zdolnikov suggests.

The fact that with the arrival of Shadaev as the head of the Ministry of Communications, a conflict of interest arises in connection with his work in Rostelecom, says Shumanov. “In the near future we should expect a series of scandals related to the market of the market,” the expert believes.

In the appointment of Lyudmila Bokova deputy Shadaev, the interlocutors of the Novaya “New” see the trend to tighten the state lords in the field of telecom, information and data transfer, as well as in the regulation of infrastructure.

“The Ministry of Communications is now changing: if earlier this structure was sometimes the only one who opposed the most odious legislative initiatives to regulate the network, then with the current composition, I think, the consistent position will appear more and more often,” concludes Darbinian.