RF Government Decree governing public access to the Internet has done a lot of noise. According to the document the user to login to the network operator must provide your personal information. In the capital’s Department of Information Technology hastened to assure a passport is only required if the Internet through computers on multiple access points, post offices. Later, the Ministry of Communications explained that the identification of the user when entering the network is possible, and even more confused users. The Cabinet did not rule out the possibility that the law may change.
Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev signed a government decree to ban anonymous Wi-Fi, – Russian media reported on Friday night, citing to the website of legal information, where the document was issued. According to the decision, access to public points of access to the Internet can only be achieved after the identification of the user: the provision of a network operator surname, name and patronymic, confirmed the identity document. The operator shall, within six months, store information about users, as well as information on the amount of time and provide them with services. Document should enter into force on August 13.
In addition, the press noted that the rules provided for in the decree for the companies in which employees provide public access to the Internet. Thus, the list of persons, for example, access point Wi-Fi, along with your name, the data about the address of residence and the essential elements of an identity document, must also be given to the operator.
Users of social networks by the news the signing of the decision with hostility and Internet industry experts said that the rules of the instrument put into practice and control everything in terms of access to the Internet is impossible. The first of the authorities closer to noon tried to reassure citizens head of the Moscow Department of Information Technology Artem Yermolaev. He hinted that the journalists misunderstood the text of the document – hence all the complaints. According to the official, the passport to access the Internet through public Wi-Fi hotspots in cafes, parks, subways, universities, hospitals and schools to present one should not be, and we are in the ruling government is solely about “community access points” – at post offices .
“Use Wi-Fi and enjoy the Internet. We are talking about access points, and when he released the document – mean it is their and universal services. Nobody is going to restrict Wi-Fi in places general use. This only applies to multiple access points that are actually funded through the universal service “- said Yermolaev ITAR-TASS.
Then” Rosbalt “asked for a comment to the main analyst of the Russian Association of Electronic Communications Karen Ghazaryan for explanation. “Nowhere in the Russian legislation does not clearly define what access points, but there are rules for the provision of universal services, which, respectively, the organizers are licensed thematic services and things like that. Speak about them, that they have a certain power of attorney to do universal access points in all localities of the Russian Federation. This is a special burden for communication to the Internet, we had to somehow available in all the remote corners of the country, “- said the expert. According to him, the decision to modify only the procedure for granting these “universal service”.
So, for recipients to access the Internet from home, it is worth recalling that the data storage requirements have been in existence since 2006. On August 1, under the “Law on the bloggers’ operating data storage access to all sites and other information systems. Apparently, those who created new laws, thought, “How is it that everything is spread out, and access points – no” “- gave his version of a ruling Karen Ghazaryan.
However, barely Internet users simultaneously relieved, some industry representatives urged to carefully read the document.
Project Manager “Roskomsvoboda” Artem Kozlyuk sure that even after the statement of the head of the Moscow department of IT to interpret the decision so clearly not worth it. “Not so simple, if you take a close look in the text of the resolution, we can see that there is clearly stated: “the rules of communication services for the transmission of data to the point of order to sign the contract for the provision of such services to be paid the duty of the legal entity or individual entrepreneur who enters into a contract operator transfer operator passport data and place of residence of all persons who will use the equipment connected via this legal entity. ” And there are no updates, it only applies to, for example, “Mail of Russia”, no “- said Kozlyuk.
In his view, the norms prescribed in the document can be attributed not only to access points Wi-Fi, but and other data transfer technologies. “If there are no published documents explaining that it applies only to the access points on the” Mail of Russia “or to other places – continued Kozlyuk – then look like it will end up even worse than” Wi- Fi on the passport “”.
Nevertheless, after some time, the Ministry of Communications published on its website a position on the decision of the sensational. document controller connected to come into force on 1 August during the “anti-terrorist amendments “federal law №97, which, inter alia, obliges popular bloggers to register as media.
Explanation Ministry confirmed: personal data Russians to enter the Internet via Wi-Fi to provide all the same it is necessary.” If the point Wi-Fi access service provider is installed, it must send the user to a request for identification data via SMS or offer a special form to indicate the data before providing access to the Internet, “- says the message the Ministry of Communications.
According to Artem Kozlyuk regulator in its ruling was based only on the law, while the crucial role played by the text of the resolution: “They are not repelled by the text of the decision, and it should be easy to read carefully and move items in it specified in the current rules provide services of data transmission. And the picture opens extremely disappointing “.
In the discussion about the decision of the Government intervened and by the head of the Ministry of Communications Nikolai Nikiforov. Later, the social network Twitter, he stated that identification of users (including via Wi-Fi) -” universal practice . “The minister added, the operator will not be entitled to require the user to only a passport. use is possible, for example, the SMS code or password from the portal of public services. Finally, however, Nikiforov reintroduced confusion in the heads of Web users, echoing Artem Yermolayeva about that the passport is only required “if you come to the village community access points” “Mail of Russia”.
“I, frankly, do not really understand what is happening, because the Ministry of Communications writes about some sms, credit cards, etc., although this is not the resolution, – responded to the position of the Ministry of Communications in conversation with “Rosbalt” Karen Ghazaryan. – Assuming that the changes were made to the 97-FZ, then what has caused the ruling? And not particularly helped by the fact that different levels of government come different information “.
” I did not face the fact that at some point it was necessary to open to enter mobile number or credit card. Perhaps some hosts public kiosks and require it. But in my experience there was not one to be asked for all the points in one city, for example. And the requirement to specify the number of mobile, to put it mildly, a bit different from the requirement to collect the passport data and information about the place of residence Connect “- summed up Artem Kozlyuk.
Finally, late in the afternoon of Friday, it became known that in Cabinet does not exclude the possibility of revising the law, the rate of which provides for a ban on anonymous Wi-Fi. A spokesman for Prime Minister Natalia Timakova told reporters: “Once is studied law enforcement practice, the government, if necessary, prepare and make appropriate changes in the law “.
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