The Ministry of Internal Affairs has released documents on the surveillance of users of social networks. "Modern terrorists are competent people with programming skills"

The Ministry of Internal Affairs has released documents on the surveillance of users of social networks.

Evgeny Biyatov / RIA Novosti

Russian police chiefs are purchasing software that allows them to spy on social media users, including reading private messages, collecting geolocation data, and analyzing connections between different users. Znak.com found out that it can be used for this "gray" access to data on social networks. The Ministry of Internal Affairs declares that it is not going to read users' correspondence without a court decision.

The Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Sverdlovsk Region announced the purchase of a software and analytical module for the Zeus information system, which is already being used by the Sverdlovsk police. The competition will take place on August 8, the starting price of the annual license is 1 million 850 thousand rubles.

In the terms of reference, the police without cuts painted all the functionality of the new software, which is designed to spy on users of social networks. Thanks to the new module, the police will be able to put any user on constant automatic monitoring: keep track of whom he adds as friends, what he writes about, whether search words are found in his publications; which groups the user joins, which photos and videos he adds and deletes, with whom and how often he communicates.

One of the points of the terms of reference directly states that the Zeus system must provide a text search in the archive of the user's personal messages.

Analysts of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs will be able to search for photos posted on social networks by geotag, the time the image was uploaded to the network, by keywords that described the photo. The module will also display on the map the place where this or that picture was taken.

Some of the functions described in the terms of reference can theoretically be provided using open data of users of social networks. At the same time, a significant part of the terms of reference can be completed only if the module gains access to classified information, including personal correspondence of users. In theory, this is possible if social networks themselves provide access to such data. For social networks, especially foreign ones, this would be a serious reputational risk.

Zeus is already operating in seven regions

During a survey of experts, Znak.com was able to contact people who have an idea of \ u200b \ u200bthe work of the surveillance program. According to them, in seven regions of the Russian Federation, this software module has already been successfully tested and started to work. In particular, Zeus is used in Novosibirsk, Samara and Tyumen regions, Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug, Samara, Altai and Lipetsk region. In the latter region, during tests of the system, the police, for example, reported on the identification of "latent" members of informal extremist associations who "allegedly carried out protest actions." In addition, the Lipetsk police managed to identify users who post advertisements for high-paying jobs for girls (presumably pimps). This is stated in the review of the tests of the Zeus system carried out by Lipetsk police in July 2016.

We were unable to find information on the public procurement system for the listed regions. Perhaps, there were closed public procurement procedures (Federal Law No. 44 allows this possibility). So far, the only region in which the auction documentation has been published is the Sverdlovsk Region.

Police: "Law-abiding citizens have nothing to worry about"

Valery Gorelykh, press secretary of the MIA General Administration for the Sverdlovsk Region, confirmed that the department is purchasing software for monitoring social networks, and noted that it is necessary for police officers "to fulfill the tasks assigned to them by law, including in the field of countering terrorism and extremism."

“Law-abiding citizens have no reason to worry about correspondence on social networks, unless, of course, it contains something criminal. You need to be afraid of those who are not suitable for a calm and peaceful life in our state, - said Gorelykh. - Work on such equipment will be carried out only by decision of the courts, so that there is no violation of the legal rights of citizens. Work in this direction is necessary both for the security of the state as a whole and for the inhabitants of the Sverdlovsk region. "

"Vkontakte": "We are acting within the framework of the law"

“VKontakte has a flexible system for setting the privacy of user pages, which allows, in particular, to close public access to their posts on the wall and exclude a personal page from the results of search sites,” said a representative of the social network. The safety of the personal data of our users is a priority for the company. VKontakte strictly adheres to the current legislation and fully respects the constitutional rights of citizens, ”said the spokesman for the social network.

Internet Ombudsman: "Normal Purchase"

Dmitry Marinichev, an adviser to the Russian president and internet ombudsman, told Znak.com that the purchase of the Sverdlovsk MIA General Administration was "quite normal." “It's like buying a car to patrol the area. Do not forget that monitoring will be carried out in "public" places. Everything that people write, photograph, and so on, they make public, - said the Internet ombudsman. - Look at it this way. Facial recognition technology has evolved very powerfully in recent years. Monitoring and automatic recognition may stumble upon photographs you took at the resort. And in the background, the robot recognizes the criminal who fled the scene. Based on this assumption, a check will be carried out and a criminal who may be a threat to your life and health will be arrested. " Marinichev did not comment on the point about Zeus's ability to read users' private messages.

Surveillance began before the "Yarovaya law"

It is worth noting that in November 2015, the Sverdlovsk Region Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs had already tried to buy a similar module for spying on users of social networks. Then the department expected to purchase software for 1 million 420 thousand rubles. However, the auction did not take place as no bids were submitted for it. At the same time, it is impossible to open the file with the protocol of consideration of applications for participation in the auction, and the only member of the tender commission, according to the public procurement website, was a man named Ivan Ivanovich Ivanov.

A trustworthy source of Znak.com, who is aware of the principles of Zeus and is associated with its developers, said that they use access to the closed interface of Russian social networks, "which social networks have shared with the security forces for a long time." According to him, the FSB and the Ministry of Internal Affairs had the opportunity to study the personal data of users in Russian social networks long before the adoption of the sensational “Yarovaya law”. “The Yarovaya law only legalized the already existing practice, including allowing the collected data to be used as evidence in court,” the source says. According to him, the use of Zeus cannot be considered a legal operational-search activity, but rather a primary collection of information, on the basis of which it will already be possible to determine targets for a legal ORD, including using the norms of the Yarovaya law. According to the source, we can say that this implies the illegal collection of information by employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

At the same time, the Znak.com source believes that Zeus will be used for the benefit of society: to search for pedophiles, recruiters of extremist organizations, or, for example, to prevent the propaganda of children's suicides.

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“For a law-abiding user, this not only will not change anything, a law-abiding user will only benefit from this,” Denis Davydov, director of the Internet Security League, told the VZGLYAD newspaper, commenting on the new measures to de-anonymize users on social networks. In his opinion, the measures will help prevent new terrorist attacks on the territory of Russia.

At the end of last week, the Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications published for discussion a draft version of its order dedicated to the regulation of requirements for equipment that is used in information systems by organizers of information dissemination (ORI) on the Internet (messengers, social networks and so on, the register of ORI is maintained by Roskomnadzor). So far, the text of the document has only been put up for public discussion (until September 6) on the federal portal of draft regulations and anyone can express their wishes.

The order has already caused a wide public outcry - it lists what data about ORI users will be required to transfer to the special services, in particular the FSB, upon request. Such user information includes a nickname (pseudonym), passport data, residence address, e-mail, IP-address, information about payments, message texts, transmitted and received files, information about foreign language skills, as well as about other users of social networks specified as relatives.

Denis Davydov, Executive Director of the Safe Internet League, spoke in an interview with the VZGLYAD newspaper about the goals of the new measures and why Russians should not worry about their introduction, as well as about similar practices in other countries.

VIEW: Denis Nikolaevich, will the proposed set of measures be able to help prevent new terrorist attacks on the territory of Russia?

Denis Davydov: Yes that's right. This is the real, true purpose of these innovations. Finally, our law enforcement agencies and special services will receive normal, effective tools to respond to terrorist threats in a timely manner. This is exactly what was missing. If such a system is created, it is clear that the main sphere of its application is anti-terrorism.

VZGLYAD: Will this facilitate the conduct of operational-search measures?

D.D .: Yes, it is essential. Earlier, businessmen did their secret dark deeds - they robbed, cheated - on the Internet, and in order to find them, police officers had to perform feats. Now it will be much easier to do this.

VZGLYAD: In order to analyze such a large amount of information, you will probably need a large number of specialists? But people are always in short supply, and besides, it can be very costly.

D.D .: The fact is that, thanks to modern technologies for analyzing large amounts of data, most of it will be performed by algorithms and, in the future, artificial intelligence programs. The intervention of living people, specialists will be required only in cases where the information is really valuable, important - and is necessary to fulfill the duties assigned to law enforcement officers.

VZGLYAD: So, the system will, in fact, be geared towards analyzing all this information using Big data technology?

D.D .: In general, any such systems that store hundreds of millions of records, metadata and other information are, of course, focused primarily on storing and convenient information retrieval. That is, such systems may offer some kind of conclusions that need additional verification by law enforcement and intelligence officers. When carrying out operational-search activities or when investigating some kind of crime, this data will be very useful.

VZGLYAD: A year ago, there were reports that the authorities in Russia are already using Big data technologies.

D.D .: It's hard to say how direct Big data technology is. Now, as far as I know, the state is only discussing architecture and those authorized bodies and organizations that will collect and process such data. However, we can say that both the state and private business are partially involved in this.

If we look at operators, for example, of cellular communications, or at credit and banking institutions, for example, at Sberbank, then why are they not “big data” operators who process them and draw any conclusions based on this analysis?

VZGLYAD: Is it true that for this system all personal information will be a kind of "white noise", and certain constructions and phrases that may be associated with plans of terrorist attacks will be "highlighted"?

D.D .: The fact is that the information that is collected will not affect the right of citizens to privacy and privacy of correspondence. This will be, first of all, data that allows you to identify a particular user. In general, this is a system that will collect and store this data.

Such information will be processed only upon request, only by a court decision. So law enforcement and intelligence officers will not just have access, for example, to letters that users send to each other.

The state talks about the prohibition of anonymity. It means that there should be no anonymous users for the state, for law enforcement agencies and special services. But, nevertheless, each of these users has the right to privacy, privacy of communication. Therefore, the state in every possible way demonstrates and declares that it will protect this right. Meanwhile, various transnational Internet giants are violating this right.

Many people say: "That's all gone, now the FSB will know the username and IP address." So what? This will help all of us avoid problems with terrorists. At the same time, for some reason, few people say that the same companies Google, Amazon, Facebook not only store personal messages of users, but also use them at their own discretion. That is, they read private messages. Google says bluntly, "yes, we read your correspondence."

It turns out that opposition activists are outraged by the FSB's empowerment to request personal data of users, although this ensures our security, and the fact that the American Internet company calmly reads the correspondence of all users of its services does not, for some reason, outrage them. This is a very strange approach.

LOOK: For an ordinary law-abiding user, this will not change anything at all?

D.D .: For the law-abiding user, this not only does not change anything, the law-abiding user will only benefit from this. I can confidently cite the PRC as an example. Many begin to laugh and giggle when it comes to China, tell some scary stories about censorship, how bad everything is there. In fact, in China, after the ban on anonymity, the Internet economy began to grow faster, and the number of online frauds decreased. And ordinary citizens benefit from this, primarily in terms of security.

I am sure that the introduction of such a system will allow us to win not only in terms of security and tranquility in relation to the terrorist threat, but also, thanks to the new tools and capabilities that law enforcement agencies will receive, will increase the detection rate of many crimes that are committed using the Internet.

Here it seems to me, by the way, that it is logical if not only the FSB, but also the Ministry of Internal Affairs gain access to these tools. And, for example, those cases of pedophiles on the Internet that seduce children will get off the ground. Simply because now, thanks to the Internet, they are encrypted, exchanged on some closed, secret sites with advice on how to seduce children.

LOOK: You have already touched on this in part. When discussing this project, many bloggers and other critics forget that our life, our safety often depends on those people who protect our peace of mind - from the special services, from internal organs. Why?

D.D .: This is indeed the case. Our security entirely depends on the efficiency and effectiveness of the system of operational-search measures, as well as on the interaction of society with law enforcement agencies and special services. Because this is not the sole task of the security agencies to resolve these issues. It is very difficult to do this alone, without reliance on society. It turns out a very strange story. A lot is being done to ensure that the authorities have modern tools to ensure our security, and here there are some people who are unhappy with everything and say strange things that this should not be done. Although, in general, the whole world is following the path of tightening control.

In general, activists who advocate anonymity on the Internet somehow do not understand one thing. It lies in the fact that anonymity has gone forever from the network. She is no more - and never will be.

LOOK: Was she ever there?

D.D .: She was very conditional. And law enforcement agencies with a high degree of probability could identify this or that person on the network, even if it took a certain amount of time. Now it will need to be spent less, and the freed up time can be used to search for criminals, terrorists and extremists.

LOOK: You said that the whole world is moving towards limiting anonymity on the Internet. The British Parliament last year approved a law that obliges telecom operators to store for a year data on all sites visited by their users and the communication services used by subscribers, and also defines under what circumstances authorities have the right to hack into users' computers. Why do our opposition bloggers ignore this fact?

D.D .: Some bloggers have the idea that it is different all over the world, while in Russia the “bloody regime” is stifling the rights and freedoms of man and citizen. This is such an artificial world in which they live. They created it for themselves. And they don't even bother to follow the news from other countries. And news from other countries is about the same order. The state in all these countries provides control over the network, over data transmission.

In Germany, for example, the issue of what can and cannot be posted on social media is already regulated at the legislative level. And that prohibited information in social networks should be deleted by the Internet sites themselves. Of course, if our various bloggers, opposition and non-opposition, were simply more interested in this issue, they would understand that this is such a global trend. It is not associated with any stifling of freedoms, but is associated with banal security.

We live in the 21st century, and modern terrorists are not just some bearded men riding a donkey, modern terrorists are competent people with programming and cryptography skills. In addition, they recruit programmers to wage a cyber war against the "infidels" in their understanding. These people have enough skills to arrange a blackout in any of the European cities - to turn off power plants, water towers, transport. Therefore, of course, all over the world states are trying to somehow resist this. One of the solutions to this problem is just the collection of data and their short-term storage.

I would like to draw your attention here, we are talking about a short-term storage of this data, while Google, conditionally, or Facebook forever stores data, forever! They do not erase them, they remain forever. That is why they are building giant "data centers" in the United States.

VZGLYAD: In the Netherlands, too, since the end of last year, there has been a public discussion of a bill that involves the collection of information about messages and calls from users with the help of local telecom operators and its subsequent storage. The authorities plan to monitor the correspondence and conversations of the Dutch and identify potential terrorists. Do you think they will eventually pass this law?

D.D .: Of course it will be accepted. The fact is that the EU countries have become hostages of the flow of migrants, the flow of refugees. Many of those who claim to be refugees are active participants in the gang underground and terrorist cells.

This, in turn, significantly increases terrorist threats. It is simply unrealistic to cope with such a wave of information using traditional methods of operational-search activity. Therefore, this is a question of our rather close future, when both European and not only European countries for the most part adopt such laws. I am sure that these laws will be more stringent than in Russia.

VZGLYAD: That is, after some time, the whole world will move to a more thorough control of the Internet space - in order to protect against terror and crime in general?

D.D .: Yes, and the next questions that will arise before states, including within the framework of bilateral and multilateral relations, are precisely the regulation of interaction in the field of data transmission. Information about our citizens is inviolable and protected by the state. Therefore, states will have to regulate at the level of some convention international rules for the use of this data, their cross-border transfer.

If our state guarantees the right to data privacy, it will have to guarantee it when processing them by other participants, including from abroad. International legislation in this area - European, Russian, American - will gradually be harmonized.

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Zeus is following you

Ministry of Internal Affairs released documents on surveillance of users of social networks

Evgeny Biyatov / RIA Novosti

Russian police chiefs are purchasing software that allows them to spy on social media users, including reading private messages, collecting geolocation data, and analyzing connections between different users. the site found out that for this it can be used "gray" access to data of social networks. The Ministry of Internal Affairs declares that it is not going to read users' correspondence without a court decision.

Full access to social media data

One of the points of the terms of reference directly states that the Zeus system must provide a text search in the archive of the user's personal messages.

Zeus is already operating in seven regions

During a survey of experts, the site was able to contact people who have an idea about the work of the surveillance program. According to them, in seven regions of the Russian Federation, this software module has already been successfully tested and started to work. In particular, Zeus is used in Novosibirsk, Samara and Tyumen regions, Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug, Samara, Altai and in another region. During tests of the system, the police, for example, reported on the identification of "latent" members of informal extremist associations who "allegedly carried out protest actions." In addition, the police managed to identify users who post advertisements for high-paying jobs for girls (presumably pimps). This is stated in the review of the Zeus system tests carried out in July 2016 by police officers from one of the regions.

Police: "Law-abiding citizens have nothing to worry about"

"Vkontakte": "We are acting within the framework of the law"

“VKontakte has a flexible system of privacy settings for user pages, which allows, in particular, to close public access to their posts on the wall and exclude a personal page from the results of search sites. The safety of the personal data of our users is a priority for the company. VKontakte strictly adheres to the current legislation and fully respects the constitutional rights of citizens, ”said the spokesman for the social network.

Internet Ombudsman: "Normal Purchase"

Dmitry Marinichev, an adviser to the Russian president and internet ombudsman, told the website that the purchase of the Sverdlovsk Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs was "quite normal." “It's like buying a car to patrol the area. Do not forget that monitoring will be carried out in "public" places. Everything that people write, photograph, and so on, they make public, - said the Internet ombudsman. - Look at it this way. Facial recognition technology has evolved very powerfully in recent years. Monitoring and automatic recognition may stumble upon photographs you took at the resort. And in the background, the robot recognizes the criminal who fled the scene. Based on this assumption, a check will be carried out and a criminal who may be a threat to your life and health will be arrested. " Marinichev did not comment on the point about Zeus's ability to read users' private messages.

Surveillance began before the "Yarovaya law"

A trustworthy source, a site aware of Zeus' principles of operation and associated with its developers, said that it uses access to the closed interface of Russian social networks, "which social networks have shared with the security forces for a long time." According to him, the FSB and the Ministry of Internal Affairs had the opportunity to study the personal data of users in Russian social networks long before the adoption of the sensational “Yarovaya law”. “The Yarovaya law only legalized the already existing practice, including allowing the collected data to be used as evidence in court,” the source says. According to him, the use of Zeus cannot be considered a legal operational-search activity, but rather a primary collection of information, on the basis of which it will already be possible to determine the targets for a legal ORD, including using the norms of the Yarovaya law. According to the source, we can say that this implies the illegal collection of information by employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

At the same time, the source of the site believes that Zeus will be used for the benefit of society: to search for pedophiles, recruiters of extremist organizations, or, for example, to prevent the propaganda of children's suicides.

Social networks have become the main invention of recent decades and their appearance has significantly changed the psychology of interpersonal communication. If earlier the circle of friends included only those people with whom we are in direct contact, now each user has the number of virtual friends exceeds all conceivable boundaries. So, why add strangers as friends and how productive is such a friendship? Sociologists around the world are looking for answers to these questions.

Why people are added as friends on VK, classmates and Facebook

Any social network has no specific geographic boundaries and you can "make friends" with a person who lives in another corner of the planet. If you open now the list of your friends in Odnoklassniki, VKontakte or any other social network, then some of your acquaintances will be completely unfamiliar. Why do people add to your friends, not knowing anything about you and not even trying to communicate?

This phenomenon has been studied by many scientists, and the conducted research has revealed an interesting trend. Friendship on social networks is very different from real communication. If we love to spend time, communicate and share impressions with the friends we see in reality, then virtual friends do not require constant attention to their person. The fact of accepting friendship does not burden you with anything and you do not need to periodically ask a stranger how they are doing. Rather, on the contrary, an attempt to get closer can be perceived as an encroachment on personal space and the person can add you to the blacklist.

There are various reasons for sending a friend request:

You have an interesting page. The person just became interested in what you post and he will be happy to read some of your messages again. However, this form of friendship does not imply feedback and you don't even have to reply to his comment after the post.
The person knows you personally. Social networks are a great opportunity to find a neighbor boy with whom you climbed through garages in your distant childhood. VK your friends may be knocked on by a former classmate, a forgotten girlfriend or even a distant relative. In this case, the social network plays the role of an excellent tool for communicating with people with whom you have long been lost.
Fraud. Sadly, but some of those who want to make a virtual acquaintance with you, expect to make money on it. Such friends begin to offer products that you are not interested in or decide to openly extort money.

Despite the danger, modern users are happy to add strangers as friends.

An interesting study was carried out in one of the institutions in England. A focus group was assembled, which included people of different genders and with different hobbies, but actively using the social network. They were divided into two separate groups. The first was shown a page with a profile of a certain person, and the other was sent a friend request. After that, they asked what they think of this person. Those who "made friends" with the person spoke of him more positively than those who simply studied his profile.

Psychology of interpersonal communication in social networks

Traditional notions of friendship have been modified by the influence of the Internet. For example, we feel attached to people who are on our friend list. But, at the same time, we do not have a desire to communicate with them every day. Virtual friendship can be based on common hobbies, or it can be just an option in the social network itself. As a rule, many of us flaunt a large number of friends, although we can not even give their real names.

The last point hides another psychological factor. Many people rate a new person by the number of friends on the social network. However, on this issue, different users have completely opposite opinions. Some of us will be surprised and immediately want to be friends with this person, while others will consider him either too infantile or a fraud.

Those who actively use the social network need to remember that the rules of friendship in this world can differ significantly from the usual ideas. There is nothing wrong with accepting an offer of friendship from a complete stranger. But you will have to make friends according to the rules of the virtual world. You should not impose communication on a new friend or demand attention to your person.

Sociological research on social media users has shown interesting results. If you unsubscribe from a friend, it creates a negative reaction. Even if there was no communication between you.

Scammers on the network

The most dangerous result of adding strangers as friends is cheating. It is often expressed in the offer of goods or extortion of money. For example, you strike up a conversation with a stranger and he talks about an excellent investment or initiates you into the tragic events that happened to him. Most often, after such a dialogue, a request for a small amount of money will follow, after which new friend is lost on the Internet. Of course, in difficult situation it may turn out to be a completely law-abiding user, so such requests should not be immediately attributed to a criminal category.

There are several main ways to identify a fraudster. Pay attention to his page. What avatar he uses, the number of his friends and the profile completion. For petty fraud, they rarely create full-fledged accounts and only get along with basic information. So you yourself are largely responsible for your safety and to identify the fraudster you only need to find Sherlock Holmes in yourself.

The social network is a phenomenon that has changed the foundations of communication. You can find many reasons not to add strangers and just as many benefits to the decision to accept anyone with open arms. If some methods by a fraudster are already well studied, then new ones will always appear. However, old acquaintances who found you by accident will simply scroll through your profile next time and you will never meet in person.

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The Ministry of Internal Affairs released documents on the surveillance of users of social networks Russian police headquarters are purchasing software that allows them to track users of social networks, including reading private messages, collecting geolocation data and analyzing the connection between different users.

Znak.com found out that it can be used for this "gray" access to data on social networks. The Ministry of Internal Affairs declares that it is not going to read users' correspondence without a court decision. The Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Sverdlovsk Region announced the purchase of a software and analytical module for the Zeus information system, which is already being used by the Sverdlovsk police.

One of the points of the terms of reference directly states that the Zeus system must provide a text search in the archive of the user's personal messages.

At the request of analysts, the software module will even draw a graph of the user's social environment and establish a possible connection between users by analyzing friends, relatives, indirect friends, places of residence, general groups and reposts. Analysts of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs will be able to search for photos posted on social networks by geotag, the time the image was uploaded to the network, by keywords that described the photo. The module will also display on the map the place where this or that picture was taken.

Zeus is already operating in seven regions

In addition, the Lipetsk police managed to identify users who post advertisements for high-paying jobs for girls (presumably pimps). This is stated in the review of the tests of the Zeus system carried out by Lipetsk police in July 2016. We were unable to find information on the public procurement system for the listed regions. Perhaps, there were closed public procurement procedures (Federal Law No. 44 allows this possibility). So far, the only region in which the auction documentation has been published is the Sverdlovsk Region.

Police: "Law-abiding citizens have nothing to worry about"

"Vkontakte": "We are acting within the framework of the law"

The press secretary of VKontakte Evgeny Krasnikov, having familiarized himself with the terms of reference for the purchase of the analytical module, noted that, most likely, we are talking about monitoring the public activity of users of social networks: their own records on personal pages, friends' records on the same walls, reposts and publications in social networking communities. “VKontakte has a flexible system of privacy settings for user pages, which allows, in particular, to close public access to their posts on the wall and exclude a personal page from the results of search sites,” said a representative of the social network. The safety of the personal data of our users is a priority for the company.

VKontakte strictly adheres to the current legislation and fully respects the constitutional rights of citizens, ”said the spokesman for the social network.

Internet Ombudsman: "Normal Purchase"

Facial recognition technology has evolved very powerfully in recent years. Monitoring and automatic recognition may stumble upon photographs you took at the resort. And in the background, the robot recognizes the criminal who fled the scene. Based on this assumption, a check will be carried out and a criminal who may be a threat to your life and health will be arrested. " Marinichev did not comment on the point about Zeus's ability to read users' private messages.

Surveillance began before the "Yarovaya law"

According to him, the FSB and the Ministry of Internal Affairs had the opportunity to study the personal data of users in Russian social networks long before the adoption of the sensational “Yarovaya law”. “The Yarovaya law only legalized the already existing practice, including allowing the collected data to be used as evidence in court,” the source says.

According to him, the use of Zeus cannot be considered a legal operational-search activity, but rather a primary collection of information, on the basis of which it will already be possible to determine targets for a legal ORD, including using the norms of the Yarovaya law. According to the source, we can say that this implies the illegal collection of information by employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.