During the summer protests, the FSB demanded that major Russian services provide online access to user correspondence

During the summer protests of 2019, the FSB demanded that major Russian services provide “24-hour remote access” to user data and correspondence and hold working meetings in the FSB reception area, Meduza and The Bell reported , citing sources.

The Bell writes that the letters were received by dozens of companies that are included in the register of information dissemination organizers. Meduza clarifies that the mailing affected Avito, Habr, Rutube and a dozen other services. “At the height of the Moscow protests, the FSB simply organized a mass mailing to companies from the ARI registry,” said Meduza’s interlocutor on the Internet market.

The FSB demanded that companies install equipment to “solve the problems of security agencies or operational investigative activities,” organize online access to the information system of the recipient organization and urgently provide data to decrypt user messages, The Bell reports , citing a letter signed by FSB officer Mikhailov . Mikhailov justifies the demands of the special service with laws and regulations adopted to implement the “Yarovaya package.”

Tne Bell writes that Mikhailov suggested holding working meetings with company representatives in the FSB reception on Kuznetsky Most or in the office of the Internet service that received the letter. A source from a company included in the register of information dissemination organizers told The Bell that cooperation with the FSB has already begun: “The intelligence services have supplied the infrastructure at our expense and can already receive a significant part of the data from our services.”