The Ministry of Digital Development proposed to oblige operators to transfer data about subscribers and their conversations to Roskomnadzor

The Ministry of Digital Development published a draft resolution in which it proposed to oblige telecom operators to transfer data about subscribers and their conversations to Roskomnadzor. attention to him . drew RBC

Operators will have to, upon request, transfer the mobile number, the name of the subscriber or the data of the individual entrepreneur and legal entity that owns it, the date and time of calls, the number of the interlocutor, as well as “facts of transmission” of SMS and “data using sensors, sensors, process control systems.”

Operators will have to respond within three days “by organizing interaction, including automatic interaction, between operator systems <…> communication with the information system.”

The explanatory note states that this is necessary to combat “gray” SIM cards, which “are issued to legal entities and individual entrepreneurs and are distributed free of charge at shopping centers and in crowded places.”

According to the draft, the resolution is being introduced as part of amendments to the Law “On Communications” adopted in December 2020, which obligated operators to identify users of corporate mobile networks.

Experts interviewed by RBC called the data proposed for checking subscribers excessive and noted that now only law enforcement agencies have access to them. Member of the Association of Lawyers Alexander Savelyev admitted that the creation of a database will lead to leaks, fearing which corporate clients will switch from mobile communications to secure instant messengers.