The Ministry of Communications has proposed to fine for an anonymous cafe Wi-Fi – Interfax

Moscow. on 23 March. INTERFAX.RU – The Ministry of Communications has prepared a draft law on the administrative liability of owners of Wi-Fi-access points to the Internet: the owners of public places (cafes, libraries, schools, parks) to oblige the agency wants to identify its users in order to avoid a fine of up to 200 thousand rubles, wrote. <-! noindex -> newspaper “Izvestia” <-! /> noindex -> Wednesday

“at present, the relevant bill has been prepared, it passes the approval procedure”, -. reported the publication in the press -service of Ministry of Communications.

The bill proposes to supplement the Code of administrative responsibility (CAO) of Art. 13.32, which imposes a fine on the administration of legal entities and individual entrepreneurs for “violation of the procedure of user identification data transmission communications services and provide access to information and telecommunication network Internet and terminal equipment used by them” on officials from the 5 th. To 10 th. Rubles on legal entities – from 100 thousand to 200 thousand rubles… In case of repeated violation the fine will already 300 thousand.

According to the initiative of the Ministry, the provision of Internet access in public places legal entities or individual entrepreneurs shall be permitted only on condition that an agreement on the user identification to be concluded between them and the telecom operators and equipment used by them – phones, tablets, laptops, etc., said the newspaper

at the same time, to identify users and their equipment used in the provision of one-time data services to multiple access points (eg. public Wi-Fi-networks) telecom operators ordered two decisions of the Russian government: of 31 July 2014 and 12 August 2014, which made changes to the “Rules of rendering telecommunication services of data transmission”

user Personality. set either by a document (eg a passport), or mobile numbers (in Russia a contract with a mobile operator is with the presentation of the document) or via login on state services portal.

The current law the responsibility for the lack of user authentication provided only for operator who fails to comply with the new rules. For this the operator faces a fine of 30-40 thousand.

The responsibility for owners of cafes, libraries, schools, institutions, parks, etc. It was not previously provided. The Ministry of Communications has decided to fill this gap in the law, the newspaper said.