From May 5, 2019, all services for instant messaging that work in Russia must check phone numbers when registering.
In theory, they must send a request to the communication operator. There are checked if there is such a number in the database, and only if the answer is positive, you can register and send messages. And if no numbers or the user cannot confirm that this is his phone, registration must be banned, and it will not receive messages.
Government Decree of 10/27/2018 No. 1279
This procedure was approved by last fall last year, but by virtue of it will come only now. Will all this work in business and how it will affect the use of messengers, it is not clear.
Services for instant messaging that work in Russia are required to check the user's phone number with a communication operator database. If no numbers or the user cannot confirm that this is his phone, will refuse registration and prohibit communicating.
Comment: It is not clear whether it will work. It may turn out as a ban on the purchase of a sim card without a passport: it seems it is impossible, and they still distribute them in transitions. But the verification procedure is approved and can apply it.
About VPN.
All proxy and VPN services, as well as the anonymous TOR, I2P and FreeNet networks, potentially fall under the law. Their owners are invited to limit access to sites entering the register of prohibited sites of Roskomnadzor.
Tracking anonymizers, TOR and VPN services that provide access to the sites blocked in Russia will be FSB and MIA.
Document also prohibits operators of search engines Issue links to resources blocked in Russia. (It is not clear how Yandex should cope with this. And Google will also be banned?)
In the law on the protection of information, changes have appeared. They were accepted to limit access to prohibited sites. Provisions that relate to blocking blockages will take effect on November 1, 2017.
The order says that only sites will be brought to the registry that allow you to access gambling, and not any VPN service. If I do not break the law, I will not ban anything?
Very banned. There are no criteria so that you can segmented the VPN assignment. Channels for encryption traffic are used in different purposes. Someone to work on the marketer or to sit in social networks, without breaking anything. And someone connects via VPN to play a casino - this is a violation.
The FTS may decide to block the site with such services, even if there is simply information about the options for bypassing online casino locks and lotteries. And even more so if you can download some kind of program or connect the service to go to the forbidden site.
This means that under threat any site about access to VPN, even if you are not going to break anything. If now it works, it may not work in a week.
I need a VPN for work, not for games. What to do, not to suffer from locks?
No one knows how specifically sites threatens blocking in the near future. If you literally understand the formulation of the order, even information sites can be made to the registry.
If you use VPN to work or protect against hackers and do not play online gambling, look for different legitimate options for access to anonymizers just in case. Or think how to work without VPN.
Do not hope that he swears as with the "telegram". This order was signed by the managers of the four departments, and now they will be required to execute it.
I am the usual user. Sometimes I use VPN, but forbidden sites do not attend. Does something threaten me?
Nothing threatens you. You can use anonymizers for work, dating sites or computer games And visit any sites that are in open access.
If the familiar to you VPN service will suddenly stop working, it means that he did not want to comply with the law and helped spout blocking. You will find another - there are many of them.
If suddenly it turns out that the site is blocked by the decision of Roskomnadzor or the work stood up due to the fact that the messenger or VPN does not work, you can lose money or even the whole business.
The Code 13 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (Administrative Code), a year ago, 306 members of the Lower House of Parliament voted a year ago.
In Russia, more than 108 thousand sites with prohibited information were blocked, but the popularity of anonymizers is growing
Now for failure to provide in Roskomnadzor data on the owners of funds for bypassing citizens blocks will be fined in the amount of ten thousand to thirty thousand rubles. For legal entities The punishment is higher - from fifty thousand to three hundred thousand rubles.
Penalties are also provided for issuing links to prohibited sites. For citizens, the punishment can reach 5 thousand rubles, officials will pay from 30 to 50 thousand rubles, above the total penalty for organizations from 500 to 700 thousand rubles.
After the State Duma adopts, the law will go to the upper chamber of parliament - the Federation Council.
Senators can consider it at the near meeting on June 20. In the case of approval by the upper chamber and signing by the president, it will take effect 90 days after official publication, that is, in the middle of autumn.
The amendments adopted by the State Duma to the Code of Administrative Offenses are aimed at fulfilling the prohibition of anonymizers. He was adopted by Parliament in July last year and entered into force on November 1. The law establishes a ban on the use information systems and programs for accessing sites blocked in Russia. In tracking the facts of use of anonymizers, units of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and FSB can participate, the document gives them the right to notify the detected cases of Roskomnadzor for the subsequent blocking of restrictions.
By the way, blocking such resources are used from mid-April to restrict access to telegram messenger. In order to fulfill the relevant decision of the Tagansky Court of Moscow, Roskomnadzor blocked about 50 VPN services and anonymizers who provided access to the messenger.
In total, according to the authority at the end of May, more than 108 thousand sites with prohibited information were blocked in Russia, but the popularity of anonymizers is growing. According to the head of the department of Alexander Zharov, over the past two years, the number of users of such services has grown from five to seven to ten - fifteen percent. At the same time, only a quarter of popular proxy and VPN services complies with existing restrictions.
It should be noted that the requirements of both laws - and prohibiting the use of anonymizers, and about responsibility for his violation, they relate to all the players of the digital market, both domestic and foreign ones.
However, the authors of the adopted law are deputies Maxim Kudryavtsev ("United Russia"), Nikolay Ryzhak ("Fair Russia") and Alexander Yushchenko (Communist Party) - declare that they have achieved a "complete understanding" with the owners of search engines and software.
Meanwhile
The State Duma on Tuesday adopted in the first reading the draft law, which makes it possible to conclude hereditary contracts and draw up joint offices of spouses. The initiative was introduced by the head of the Duma Committee on Gosstroiteli and the legislation of Pavel Krasheninnikov. The bill is made amendments to the first and third Civil Code of the Russian Federation, which provide for new opportunities for the Russian hereditary right - to conclude hereditary contracts and compile joint offices of spouses. As the initiative as explained earlier, it will help "to advance about the fate of the inheritance and thereby reduce the likelihood of conflicts with the participation of persons who may be called in inheritance." For example, if there is a joint testament, the spouses do not need to share a joint property, and then decide the question of inheritance and heirs.
New fines for client base leaks
The Ministry of Medizifra proposed to enter fines for leakage personal data into open access.
In Russia, more than 400 thousand personal data operators, among them and hotels, carriers, companies mobile communications, banks. According to their instructions, other companies are engaged in collecting and processing information, accumulate large databases (for example, insurance agents, aggregators), which are often "rejected" and are used completely differently marketers, fraudsters, cold sales specialists and so on. In "leaks", personal data operators are usually accused of just those who collect information for them.
According to the project, if the operator did not control the data collection, then it will be a penalty of up to 30 thousand rubles for one identified case "leak". For persons who collect data on behalf of operators, fines are projected in the same amount for violating data processing rules.
In addition, the Office proposes to limit the number of organizations that may publish data on orphans on the Internet. Such exceptional law intends to be given only to the federal and regional authorities, which are responsible for the formation of a state-owned bank data on children left without parental care, and the right to process biometric personal data of orphans for their device in the family will remain in the executive authorities.
While in Russia the struggle for the Internet continues, more and more users learn to use the funds of the prohibitions of Roskomnadozara's prohibitions: master VPN and proxy, saying thanks to the supervisory department for the incentive to do computer literacy. However, the question arises how much to use these services at all, and since the country, it was so zealously to block the Internet, will not be punished for bypassing prohibitions.
When Roskomnadzor began (attempting) to block Telegram, users just joked over the department and. In social networks even appeared stories that the saleswires are taught in stores in stores.
Sergey Vasilyevich
Now I drove into the nearest "thieves" behind Mors, there at the checkout of the saleswoman 45 tried to explain the buyer of 60 years 60, how to set up a proxy in the cart to use the store's bottle further.And although not all believed in such stories, the number of people who began using proxy and VPN has increased dramatically. How told BBC owners three services By going around locks, at least half of the Telegram users (about 8 million people) continued to use the messenger through their services after the official blocking.
It is still known how much exactly the person began to use the access tools, after Roskomnadzor began to massively block the IP addresses, but another on April 12, a specialist in the field of cybersecurity Alexander Litreyev told the "Vedomosti" that only his proxy service client base rose from nine thousand up to one and a half million Also, according to the "Kommersant", 20 percent increased the number of entries from the territory of Russia to the TOR network.
However, some users have begun questions: it is legally using the means to bypass blocking.
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Before installing a VPN, I first abandoned the question, and whether it can be planted for it as a repost. I can not be jailed now (The question is quite reasonable, because in November 2017, a prohibition of blocking by VPN, TOR and anonymisers came into force. However, there are nuances in it. This law prohibits the owners of such services to provide access to blocked resources. For refusal to obey VPN services promised to block what happened in early March. Then RKN blocked 18 servers, with which the Telegram could be used.
Can the locked blocks be brought to the responsibility of users? Not yet. The law adopted in 2017 states that the responsibility for providing access to prohibited sites lies with the "Owner of software and hardware access tools", that is, on VPN owners and proxy services. For the non-fulfillment of the law, blocking is threatened. As for Tor, it, according to experts, it is almost impossible to block it (although in Belarus they are trying).
For a regular user, this law can be compared with the law on the ban on the sale of minors cigarettes. If the teenager is buying cigarettes - they will punish the seller, not the buyer.
The fact that ordinary users do not plan to raise responsibility for the use of blocking services for blocking, April 16, also said the head of Roskomnadzor Alexander Zharov, who himself, he put himself on his smartphone VPN, reported in the Russian Gazette.
If we talk about VPN, you can not block them all. In Russia, their hundreds of thousands, both commercial and self-made. Is it possible to block individual VPN - you can definitely. We will look as we use, whether we use massively, whether it makes sense to restrict access to VPN. But VPN as another Internet program has a set of characteristics, IP addresses.
The fact that ordinary users will not be punished for the use of the trafficking tools, also told RIA Novosti lawyer, a criminal law specialist Alexey Sinitsyn.
For users, responsibility for using such services, networks russian legislation Not provided.
Before the "war" with Telegram, the law on the ban of blocking services of blockages was generally called useless. Despite the fact that the owners of the services were supposed to follow FSB and stop providing access to prohibited resources, for three months from the beginning of the operation of the special service document never appealed to Roskomnadzor demanding to limit the work of anonymizers, wrote
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What happened?
The Duma made a bill prohibiting the services bypassing the blocking to give Russians access to prohibited sites. We are talking about all sorts of intermediaries, which allow you to enter the prohibited pages through foreign servers. In addition, the document prohibits search engines to issue links to prohibited pages.
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Prohibition of anonymizers? And how will it work?
The idea is quite simple. The law will be clearly spelled out that various services (for example, anonymizers), networks (for example, VPN) and programs (for example, TOR and OPERA) cannot be given to the Russians access to prohibited sites. Roskomnadzor will follow such services and networks. If the department finds that some services, networks or programs allow Russians to go to blocked pages through foreign servers, employees will guide the owners of the requirement - do, please, so that the Russians cannot come to such and such Prohibited sites. If the owners do not fulfill the requirements for a month, Roskomnadzor will start blocking their servers, with which users bypass blocking, and sites where they install the necessary program. And if you agree, it will not begin. The agency will create a special list of prohibited resurov and will give it to the access to the owners of anonymizers and VPN-networks so that they themselves can follow, whether they allow the Russians to watch something forbidden.
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What about search engines?
Everything is simple. Now Yandex, Google and other search engines are not prohibited from issuing links to blocked pages. Now they want to ban show such links to users in Russia. They will also include access to the list of prohibited pages, which will lead Roskomnadzor. For violations of search engine owners will be penalized in sum from 500 to 700 thousand rubles.
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We have a VPN at work. Will the problems begin now?
Not. The bill has an exception for companies that use their own VPNs and other blocking tools if these tools are only available to employees.
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They say the coolest is Tor. It can also be blocked?
Yes, Tor also falls under the bill. Authorities can block public servers to which users are connected. This list is open to all, and there is nothing complicated to close access to it.
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And what to do? Lock Now it will not be possible to get around?
Anyway, blocking can be circumvented, it's easy, it may become more difficult. It is now difficult to answer this question clearly, because we do not know what exactly the bill will take (at the same time, we do not doubt that it will be accepted) and how it will be performed. But there are ways to crawl. For example, Tor besides a public list of keys there is a constantly updated list of servers through which you can access the desired sites. Learn more about how the TOR is arranged and how to use the network in case of blocking public nodes, you can in our cards.
There are other ways to bypass blocking - for example, you can use not just a VPN, but double. Suppose you are connected to the server, say, in Holland, and then - also through VPN - to the server in Denmark. And the Danish server will consider you a user from Holland, although in fact you are looking for a resource from Russia. Such a scheme will work even if both VPN services will execute Russian law and restrict access for Russian customers. After all, the Danish service will read the user of the Dutch.
A few days ago there was enough significant event - In the first reading, the State Duma of the Russian Federation adopted a bill on the "ban of anonymizers and VPN". After the introduction of the registry of forbidden sites and blocking various resources, many wondered - and how soon the schemes for bypassing these locks will be prohibited? It turned out that it took not so much time - just some 5 years.
June 8, 2017 - It was on this day that it was officially decided to make the route the similarity of the Chinese network segment. Despite the fact that the law is not formally accepted and a number of procedures have to pass, in the end result there are no doubt. Carthage will be destroyed, and users who wish strange in the form of job search on LinkedIn or communicating with their Soklanians for any MMORPG from South Korea In Line, with all the desire, they will not be able to do this. In general, remember this tweet (s).
So, what did the legislators prepare us? They prepared us a bill on a couple of dozen pages called "On Amendments to the Federal Law" On Information, information technologies and about the protection of information ". Brought it three deputies from different parties, but even the party affiliation does not play any role. Recently, laws that, one way or another limit the network space are accepted almost unanimously.
It will act in 90 days after the entry into force, so that the new reality after the passage of all 3 readings and the presidential signatures will come quite quickly.
As everything will be
The bill introduces a new key article for the issue 15.8 . Officially, the article is a long and uninterrupted name "Measures aimed at countering the use in the territory Russian Federation information and telecommunication networks, information systems and programs for electronic computing machines to gain access to information resources, including sites and (or) pages of sites on the Internet "Internet", access to which on the territory of the Russian Federation is limited in accordance with this Federal Law. "In fact, this article describes exactly the prohibition of blocking tools and how The ban is planned to be implemented. The article consists of 17 parts written by the Mattirai Office, so that without a bottle, we simplified everything to the terms used in the industry.
The first part of the article from a room in a quarry prohibits any service that works in Russia, to provide access to information that is prohibited in Russia in accordance with the law. In order to stop attempts to bypass prohibitions, a number of new features will be laid at Roskomnadzor:
First, the supervisory service will create and maintain a list of resources prohibited in the country. Note that such a list is already underway, so that in this respect nothing has changed.
Secondly, Roskomnadzor will have to develop and approve the methodology, in accordance with which the network space will monitor the services of the services that offer the opportunity to access locked resources.
Thirdly, finding such resources, Roskomnadzor will have to determine hosting providers (or any other individuals) who have placed these resources.
Fourth, after determining the hosters, they are sent requests (in Russian and english) With the requirement to issue information that will help identify those who contain blocking services. What information is we talking about, not explained. Most likely, for individuals it will be a name, address of residence and the like, and for legal - the name of the company, location, possibly bank details. The date of such a request will be fixed.
Here we will distract a little and allow ourselves to note that if the hosters in Russia have to fulfill all the requirements, then foreign hosters are hardly to comply with the requirements of Roskomnadzor. For one thing when the register of the company's distribution organizers themselves give their data, and it is completely different when the hoster will have to issue the data of its client to the government of other countries. In addition, such "openness" will lead to a catastrophic drop in reputation, the hoster will violate the law on personal data of its country.
After the hoster received the appropriate request, it provides the Roskomnadzor all the data requested by Roskomnadzor. After that, Roskomnadzor on the basis of the received data on a three-day period sends a request to the services themselves by ordering locks with the requirement to stop violations and turn off the possibility of traversal blockages in Russia.
Having received the requirements of Roskomnadzor on restriction, blocking services independently (options):
- Limit the access of all Internet users to their functions (voluntarily closes if it is simple).
- Limit access to their functions in Russia (voluntarily bother in RuNet, you mean).
- We send a request to Roskomnadzor to provide access to the register of prohibited sites and independently begin to block resources from this registry.
And if we do not consonant?
If someone wants to show fundamentality and refuses to fulfill the requirements of Roskomndasor on the blocking of prohibited resources, the end of it will be sad - he will be blocked in Russia in 30 days. During the day, Roskomnadzor will send a message to telecom operators with the list of addresses of the "dissent", which will need to be blocked. Operators, in turn, during the day after receiving such a message, add addresses in the block list.
In general, the standard blocking mechanism, only VPN services, anonymizers and other similar sites have to block this time.
We have already consonted what to do?
If someone first wanted to show fundamentality, but then I realized that she would be too expensive to him, he could take measures to block forbidden sites and report this Roskomnadzor. After that, during the day, Roskomnadzor checks the accuracy of the information, and if the resources are really blocked, it starts the unlocking procedure. During the day, communication operators will ensure access to the "cropped" VPN.
How will interaction go?
The procedure for interacting with VPN services, anonymizers, technological networks and other resources that will block prohibited information to be developed by Roskomnadzor. The supervisory service will be obliged to provide access to the list of prohibited information to anyone who agrees with its requirements in accordance with the developed procedure for interaction. In turn, the resources themselves will have to block prohibited information, and comply with this procedure for interaction.
Search engines
Separate parts of the article provide operator duties search engine. It, as well as blocking services, will receive access to the list of locked sites and will be obliged to exclude from the search for reference to the prohibited sites. Interestingly, the punishment in the form of blocking by search engines is not clearly spelled out - it concerns only blockage bypass services. So Google will remain affordable if, of course, the norm does not fix. But instead of blocking search engines prescribed fines. If the search engine operator does not filter the search results, or did not want to access the register of prohibited sites, it will entail an administrative penalty:
- on citizens in the amount of five thousand rubles;
- on officials - fifty thousand rubles;
- on legal entities - from five hundred thousand to seven hundred thousand rubles.
Work, and we will give you a salary to you VPN!
Apparently, hindening the warnings that VPN is used not only to read and watch "Forbidden", legislators have left the opportunity to use services for companies. They, as before, can be used by their own access prohibit technologies, but only in cases where users have concluded labor agreements with them.
So now, if you want to use some VPN, you will have to not only pay for access, but also to enter into an employment contract with its owner. Such here the new kind Business. At the same time, unemployment will decrease.
Everything has already started
Despite the fact that the prohibition of anonymizers and VPN is only to be inserted into the legal field, in fact, anonymizers are prohibited by de facto. The prohibition mechanism is very simple - the prosecutor's office submits a lawsuit to the court, and he makes a decision on the ban on an anonymizer, since with the help of it you can access forbidden information. On this basis, in 2016, "chameleon" was blocked, the site Hideme.ru and a number of others.
During the writing of the material, another news came: Roskomnadzor, Ministry of Internal Affairs, Rospotrebnadzor and FTS have released an interdepartmental order, which allows you to block any means of climbing blockages without a court decision. Justifications are also very simple - through these resources you can play in an illegal casino, which is prohibited in Russia. Officially, everything sounds like this:
Having on the site page on the Internet "Internet" and (or) program for electronic computing machines, allowing you to access the site in the Internet network, the site page on the Internet network, which contains prohibited information corresponding to the criterion specified in paragraphs 4.1.1.-4.1.6 of these criteria included in the Unified Registry.
Naturally, this description falls everything that gives access to prohibited information, including VPN. Interestingly, the order itself was registered on June 27, and released it on May 18. Given that such documents are not prepared for the day, the decision on blocking VPN. It was accepted much earlier.
A few days ago, the supervisory service sent the service operators updated recommendations for blocking Internet resources. Nothing special old version Recommendations do not differ, only contain references to preferred methods of blocking in the form of DPI, open software and buying already filtered traffic from a higher provider.
Consequences for the industry
For communication operators, changes will be minimal. Well, a few more addresses will be added to the list on blocking, nothing terrible. They are so thousands of them. But for Runet, as phenomena, everything will be much more serious. In fact, separate spaces are created, in which not only cannot be accessed by some resources, and it is not even necessary to learn that these resources exist. Of course, it can be argued that there are ordinary sites, forums, foreign versions of Google, where you can find information and links and distributions.
However, the logic of events of inexpressible - forbidden information in the runet should not be. So the further, the poorest will be the Russian segment. One after another overseas services will leave the market or blocked. Just someone earlier (like Line or LinkedIn), someone later. The released places will begin to occupy Russian services that are now appearing like mushrooms after the rain. About their as default - there is an excellent example of a "satellite", which even in the presence of powerful competitors in the face of Google and Yandex represents something from the late 90s. Without the possibility of fully interacting with the world industry, Russian telecom and IT will be degraded (already on a successful Kaspersky, they look disapprovingly), and the farther, the speed of degradation will increase. In the end, all the version of "Kwanmön".
On the other hand, there is no Internet in Africa at all, and no one is experiencing about him.