Messengers are prohibited. Roskomnadzor blocked four messenger

From January 1, 2018, new rules for using messengers will begin to operate. All users will have to specify their number. mobile phone When registering and working with any programs that have the ability to exchange messages. These are the requirements of the Federal Law "On Information information technologies And about the protection of information. "The initiators of the amendments were deputies of the three factions -" United Russia "," Fair Russia "and the Communist Party of Russia.

According to these changes, messengers will now have:

· Identify your users (that is, actually prohibit the use of the services anonyms)

· Send social and important information on solving authority

Our main goal is to protect citizens, taking into account today's situation, "says Marina Mukabenova, State Duma deputy from United Russia. - In such messengers, terrorist groups may appear and spam attacks.

Messengers will have to block messages with advertising of terrorism, drugs and child pornography. And at the request of the authorities to distribute socially significant information, such as reports of the Ministry of Emergency Situations on Emergency Worsening.

What will change for users

Now register in services you can at the address email. That is, actually impersonal. But many messengers have already entered authorization via SMS. From time to time, the company is checked if the user has changed a telephone number - the user is invited to enter its current number. After that, it comes to it with a confirmation code or reference. From January 1, this authorization will be the rule for all.

Only users identified on the basis of the subscriber number and the relevant treaty can transmit instant messages - the Prosecutor General of Russia Yuri Seagull explained.

Why is this state? To obtain personal data of the user, against which, for example, an investigation is conducted.

What problems are possible

1. "Messenger" is a blurred concept. Technically, this definition - "Information and Communication Service" - not only Telegram and others, but also chats on sites (for example, with an online consultant) and games. It seems that it is to decide who the ban is applied to, will be Roskomnadzor - according to his prescription, the company will have to lead their services in line with new requirements.

2. The SIM card can be framed on the "left" people.

Many sim -kart sell "in black", "the general director of the R-Techno Business Intelligence Agency Roman Roman Roman Roman Roman Roman Roman Roman Roman. - On any market you can buy a phone number that is registered on entity. And the police are not much fighting with it. This business must be stopped, otherwise the terrorists will be banned.

In addition, fraudsters can use both "dead souls" - to arrange a SIM card on the person who will never take advantage of it (for example, on a lonely old woman in the outback or homeless).

3. Change the account when moving?

Even legal users may have problems.

Binding to the telephone number is Rudiment - I am sure cEO Biolink company Evgeny Cherehnev. - First, the number is tied to the region - and these are additional problems with identification when moving. Secondly, this criminals make no sense to enjoy popular messengers - with the help of technologies open Code Create your own chat (meaning your own messenger - ed.) Maybe anyone. Thirdly, it is not known what to do foreigners who have no Russian SIM cards and whose data are unknown to our operators. There is a problem with the termination of the numbers when the number is not used for a long time, and it is transmitted to the new owner. Having bought a new SIM card, the owner can get along with her and the entire cargo of accounts for it. Therefore, there are such inchnal situations when, for example, in the messenger "Glows" online already a deceased person.

4. You can make a "substal" number.

Today there are many services that allow you to create virtual telephone numbers. You can even create a number of only 10 minutes, after which it will be destroyed. But this time is quite enough for any attackers to send a set of messages.

Of course, these services can be obliged to report to the state, transmit all data on each user. And if it is not russian companies? There is already a mass of additional difficulties.

5. This is not a panacea from drug sellers and terrorists.

The messengers themselves, for example, the same Viber and Telegram, can not read the correspondence of users and track whether there is something about drugs and terrorism there.

There are two communication modes: conventional chats using client-server encryption, and secret chats that use ended encryption and reserved intermediary attacks - explained in Telegram. - In conventional chats, messages are encrypted on the sender side, pass through the server encrypted, and are already deciphered on the recipient side. That is, Telegram specialists see that two people communicate, but do not know what these messages are about. In secret chat mode there is additional option - Visual keys that display encryption codes. Users can compare them and make sure that no one intercepted their correspondence. In such chats, messages cannot be represented, they are stored only on the devices themselves, and self-definitely self-defined.

Who and how to punish

Fine individuals - from 3 to 5 thousand rubles

Officials - from 30 to 50 thousand

Legal entities - from 800 thousand to 1 million rubles.

Messengers can block - temporarily, before eliminating violations, or "life."

But large services make no sense to change encryption algorithms for the sake of Russian users. According to experts, the Russian audience of the same WhatsApp is no more than 2%. So companies may be easier to leave the Russian market than to change the code and equipment for the sake of the sake of lawmaking.

Said

"The Telegram cooperation level with the authorities does not depend on jurisdiction and is built everywhere on the same principles. Unlike its Russian colleagues, Indonesian public services did not require access to personal correspondence.

All over the world, including Russia, Telegram processes requests for the removal of publicly available illegal content containing propaganda of terrorism, child pornography, etc. At the same time, in no country, we do not issue personal data of users to public authorities.

Although the weighty share of the Telegram audience falls on more conservative countries than Russia, only in Russia Telegram was fined for failure to provide key encryption keys. This is the only similar precedent for 4 years of work Telegram on the global market. "

And how are they

Mandatory identification works in other countries of the world. For example, in China, local microblogging users are obliged to indicate when registering their government identification numbers. International services such as Facebook or WhatsApp are formally prohibited, but they work there only through an anonymizers. But since June 2017, the law, which prohibits them, entered into force in the PRC.

A similar ban on anonymity on the Internet is in Sweden. The local government has introduced it back in 2011.

But the US and Germany, on the contrary, defend the right to anonymity - at the level of court proceedings.

By the way

The head of Roskomnadzor stated that anonymity on the Internet does not exist

The head of Roskomnadzor Alexander Zharov said that there is no anonymity on the Internet. According to him, modern technologies Allow identity on various direct and indirect identifiers: voice, face, behavior on the network, regularly visited resources and geolocation ()

Russians were banned by anonymously use messengers. The government approved new rules according to which services now instant messages Only those who will give them to the present number will be able to use and confirm their identity through the operator. During the Identification process, the Messenger will send the request to the operator to find out if there is a subscriber in the database. The operator will have 20 minutes to provide the answer. Each user will be assigned a unique code.

From the operators, the execution of new legislation will require additional costs, emphasizes the lead analyst of the Inselerator Fintech Lab Sergey Villanov: "Operators will have to process millions of appeals, and considering that every citizen has more than one SIM card, companies will have to constantly answer these requests and Create a load on your equipment. It turns out that everyone will have to write their own when registering in the messenger full name, surname and patronymic. This, firstly, strange, in the messengers it is not accepted. Secondly, what does it work?

We take the database of users - names, surnames, patronymic, for sure the date of birth will need - and give these information to foreign companies.

After all, most messengers who are popular in Russia today are foreign developments. There is no practical benefit in this. "

According to Roskomnadzor, who proposed a bill, anonymous correspondence in messengers prevents law enforcement agencies to investigate crimes, and new rules allegedly will be able to fix it. But Internet-Ombudsman Dmitry Maricechov does not believe in it. According to him, this not only will not help the work of the police, but also make it difficult for corporate communication: "It is just illegal, some kind of huge hole in security. Roughly speaking, you created some kind of platform and simply by the method of extinguishing and accessing telecom operators you can get the entire sample of databases with phone numbers, names and surnames of registered subscribers. This is a surrealistic situation. In addition, the question remains open from the point of view of corporate communications. Who will identify the employee who uses corporate communications? They can not be put on the messengers at all, we will ban business to communicate. I do not see, firstly, the meaning, secondly, the technical and legal execution of this law.

In addition to damage to the reputation of power, he cannot bring anything. "

If the user changes the phone number, the identification will need to be repeated. And those who have not been checking, will not be able to send messages. But as new rules will work in practice, it is incomprehensible, noted the lead analyst Mobile Research Group Eldar Murtazin: "Today it is full of utopia, because it is almost impossible to achieve this. In practice, we will encounter the fact that we will have a situation again, as with the prohibition of Telegram. The ban exists, but at the same time all uses the messenger. Just the money of taxpayers will be allowed to the air, formally, violent activity will appear, and the operators will make "break" the Internet, which is already ridiculous. But it is impossible to achieve all this to work in some kind of digestible form. De facto all the most popular messengers are out of Russia. Just as Telegram does not comply with Russian legislation, so they will not go on the government and do something. "

Since January, the law has already been operating in Russia, which provides for a penalty for refusing messengers to identify users. For Yurlitz, it ranges from 800 thousand rubles. up to 1 million rubles.

Roskomnadzor contributed to the register of prohibited sites Messengers BlackBerry Messenger (BBM), Line, IMO.IM and audiovisual chat VCHAT, said RoscomxVod. The registry includes portals of these messengers and a number of their IP addresses.

In Russia, it will be limited to access not only to the sites of these messengers, but also to their applications - they will be deleted from application stores or blocked by telecom operators, the representative of Roskomnadzor Vadim Ampelonsky clarified.

Lock mobile application Along with the site of the resource - non-cost task, Says a person close to one of the operators, as a rule, modern applications are referred to specific resources, the blocking of which gives blocking and applications too. The regulator has experience excluding a blocked resource from Google and Apple shops. In January AppStore and Google Play. Removed from their Russian stores a blocked LinkedIn.

The law obliges the organizers of the dissemination of information (including messengers) at the request of Roskomnadzor, their contact details necessary for introducing into the appropriate registry explains the Ampelonsky: "Those who do not react are under blocking - in full compliance with the law." To enter the list of information organizers, the regulator asks the company to provide data about himself (not about users), says Ampelonsky, but what this data does not disclose.

From the moment of receipt of the request, there are five days to respond, he continues if the answer does not come, the Office sends a notice of the failure to fulfill the responsibilities of the organizer of the dissemination of information, the company is given 15 days for correction. Next comes blocking. What other messengers addressed Roskomnadzor, Ampelonsky did not say.

Amendments to the Law "On Information, Information Technologies and Information Protection" from January 1, 2017 oblige the organizers of the dissemination of information on the Internet to store information about the facts of reception, transmission, delivery and (or) processing of voice information, written text, images, images , sounds, videos or other electronic messages Users and information about these users during the year, and the Content itself - up to six months. Services are also required to provide this content at the request of the federal executive bodies and provide them with the possibility of decoding information.

The first in April Roskomnadzor blocked the application for sharing short voice messages Zello. The company also did not provide for information for inclusion in the registry.

Blocked messengers are not among those popular in Russia (see schedule). It is possible that this is an indicative introduction to the register of not the most popular in Russia, but the famous messengers in the world need to force more popular among Russian audiences and non-promotional, first of all Telegram, the head of Roscomsvobody, Artem Kozluk, believes. The owner of Telegram Pavel Durov has repeatedly stated that they did not cooperate and is not going to cooperate with the special services neither Russia or other countries. "But we will learn about this only on the fact of making this messenger to one of two registers: the organizers of the dissemination of information with all the resulting duties on the collection of user data and providing them with the competent authorities or to the register of prohibited sites - under blocking. So far, it can be seen, the regulators decide how to press on Paul, "the goat arises.

Image Caption. Not all messengers go to cooperation with the special services of Russia, but it puts them at risk blocking

The Russian government has banned Internet messengers to disclose any information on interaction with the special services. Users of messengers who fulfill Russian legislation will never recognize how often these services are satisfied by the Curiosity of the FSB.

The administration of messengers (in the current law they are called the organizers of the dissemination of information on the Internet, Ori) should ensure "non-disclosure of any information on specific facts and the content of such interaction to third parties," follows from the text of the Government Decree of January 18. The document was published on the official portal of legal information on Monday, January 22.

To transfer user data, special services messengers must set special software and hardware. What exactly, not specifying. By its decree, the Russian government banned these funds outside the country.

The ruling is directly related to messengers who are registered in the Roskomnadzor registry. Among them, Telegram, Agent Mail.Ru, Chinese WECHAT, Russian social networks "VKontakte" and "Odnoklassniki".

It is forbidden to be transparent

International IT companies report special services in transparency reports published twice a year. Thus, the latest Facebook report refers to the second half of 2016, Google, Twitter and Microsoft reports - by the first half of 2017. Russian social networks "VKontakte" and "Odnoklassniki" do not publish reports on transparency and refuse to provide them on request.

The government did not make a sentence for disclosing information on interaction with the special services, notes the lawyer of the human rights "team 29" Daryan Gryaznova.

"If Ori refuses to obey these requirements, there are formally no compounds on which it is possible to bring to responsibility - the Administrative Code establishes responsibility for disclosing information, access to which is limited federal law, as well as for non-fulfillment of responsibilities that are assigned to federal law (and here, a sub-commercial act), "the lawyer notes.

Gryaznova reminds that in accordance with the law on operational and investigation activities, information about the forces, means, sources, methods, plans and the results of such activities is a state secret.

"The meaning is one - if the internal affairs bodies, Federal Service Security and other bodies that carry out operational-search activities decided to read your correspondence, they will do it, and now they want to force representatives of the messengers to not report this to anyone, "the lawyer will summarize.

The Government Decision fully covers the transparency of law enforcement and any public control, considers the partner of the Center for Digital Rights, a lawyer in the field of Cyberfrava Sarkis Darbinyan.

"Projects such as Ranking Digital Rights are investigating the reports of large IT companies and rank them, based on the level of transparency. Judging by the government's position, the work of such projects in Russia will be impossible, and the whole process will occur behind closed doors. It may be extremely bad To affect the digital rights of Russian users, "the expert believes.

Messengers are required ...

The Russian law on messengers entered into force on January 1, 2018. According to it, the messengers are required to identify users by phone number.

The law obliges messengers to provide the possibility of mailing e-mails on the initiative of the authorities, as well as limit the transfer of messages that contain "unlawful information". In case of non-fulfillment by the messenger of these requirements, the law allows telecom operators to close access to the service decision.

For violations of the law on messengers, a fine of up to 1 million rubles may be imposed.