The congressmen considered that the current rules negatively affect the development of the Internet business and provide advantages to some companies. The House of Representatives of the US Congress decided to cancel the norm prescribing to Internet companies to ensure the maximum safety of users' personal data. The Congress “expressed disagreement” with the new document with the prohibitions adopted in 2016 for the sale of user data to third parties.

In April, the continuation of the “written -off books” campaign, which was implemented in 2016, will start - then book booking was carried out by phone.

Only 1% of teenage suicides in Russia is associated with “death groups” on social networks. Vadim Gaidov, Deputy Head of the Main Directorate for the Protection of Public Order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, indirectly confirmed the fears of Roskomvoboda that in Russian the mass media, as well as odious politicians and dubious organizations, misinformation regarding the influence of “death groups” on the statistics of adolescence suicides.

The department of Vladimir Medinsky is preparing a bill “On the Protection of National Films on the Internet”, a tightening mechanism for blocking pirate sites. According to the idea supported by domestic filmmakers, access to Internet pages with Russian films posted there without the knowledge of the copyright holder will be limited without trial in a couple of days. The proposal can be made to the State Duma in the form of amendments to the bill on blocking the "mirrors" of pirate sites.

The Ministry of Communications has prepared draft amendments to the Rules for the provision of communication services and data transmission, obliging subscribers to indicate in contracts with operators everyone who can use their gadgets. Subscribers of communication services will have to disclose to operators the full personal data of all persons using their devices with identification modules (this includes , in particular, SIM cards).

The anger of the Murmansk chief police officer was caused by the article “The General’s Case” about facts of abuse of office, which in October the regional department of the FSB sent to the Investigative Committee.