Anastasia Vasilchenko Yota press secretary

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"At the moment, the bill is being prepared for discussion in the second reading. We will monitor the progress of the document's consideration. Data storage, as well as its detailing at the level of content of text messages and media files, will require operators to make colossal investments in expanding the infrastructure of data storage systems. For OTT services, a mobile operator is only a transport through which their traffic goes, in most cases encrypted. Therefore, we cannot control what happens on the messenger side"

A VimpelCom representative told theRunet that the operator switzerland mobile phone numbers database does not store subscriber correspondence data via messengers and the company does not have encryption keys for this data. Messengers encrypt correspondence themselves, so all encryption keys are stored on their side, and in most cases, outside the country.

Megafon declined to comment, and MTS had not responded to the request by the time the article was published.

What do lawyers think?
Alexander Samarin, a lawyer at Pravoved.RU , believes that the transfer of keys for decrypting data does not fall under the disclosure of commercial secrets and that, in the wake of the fight against terrorism, the bill may well pass.

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Alexander
Samarin
lawyer
pravoved.ru
"Formally, there is no violation here, because these amendments only oblige the organizer of the dissemination of information on the Internet to transfer the information necessary for decoding and do not provide access to the correspondence without a court decision. Only the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation can put a final point, but most likely no violations will be found.
The changes proposed by the bill will ensure the implementation of additional measures to protect citizens and society from terrorism, and will also help prevent these crimes.
The special services will benefit from this. Of course, the threat of terrorism is real, but it is difficult to say how conscientiously and reasonably the special services will use the opportunities provided. Much has been written about illegal wiretaps not so long ago, and there is no certainty that the correspondence will be read only for the purposes specified in the law. But in general, if we proceed from the stated goals of the amendments, then this is only a benefit"