The employee of the largest bot was detained to search for personal data

Unknown people in civilian clothes, camouflage masks and berets on Wednesday in the evening searched the apartment of the alleged administrator of the largest telegram bout to search for personal data of citizens. After that, he was detained and taken away in an unknown direction. This was announced by the lawyer of the human rights project "Network Freedom" Fedor Sirosh.

The defender was taken out of the apartment and not allowed to search, he said. The personality of the administrator is not disclosed, the data of the individual entrepreneur Evgeny Antipov is indicated on the Bot website, notes Mediazon.

In the "Eye of God" one could look for the data of Russian citizens on law enforcement and state bodies leaked to the network. Almost 900 thousand people are signed to the channel of its creators. In March, Roskomnadzor demanded that Telegram remove the bot for violation of the law on personal data.

A person who introduced himself as a Bota press secretary told the MBH Media publication that the detainee was not the owner of the channel, and the search was allegedly not related to the work of the project. The search was held by the girl of the detainee, he said.

Russian state databases regularly find themselves online. In the country there is a large -scale black market for the purchase of closed information about citizens - for example, on the purchase of tickets, the movement of funds on accounts and phone calls.

On December 14, the Bellingcat investigation group has published an investigation on the alleged poisoners of the opposition politician Alexei Navalny. The text described in detail about the movement of several FSB officers in the country, presumably participating in the attempt, data about their calls and the geolocation of their phones. Researchers argue that all this information was purchased in the black market.

After that, the “puncture” market for state databases experienced a rigid cleaning, the prices for some services have grown, the services have become less affordable, the Bell and Mediazona told. The country has become more frequent in cases of detention and arrests of employees of private companies and police officers supplying information to sellers.