The organizer of the dissemination of information on the Internet. Organizer of information dissemination Distributors of information included in the register of Roskomnadzor

The government approved the Yarovaya package. According to the amendments to the Federal Law of July 6, 2016 No. 374-FZ "On Information, Information Technologies and Information Protection", the rules of the "Yarovaya package" come into force on July 1.

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As determined by the Government Decree of June 26, 2018 No. 728 "On approval of the Rules for storing by the organizer of the dissemination of information in the information and telecommunications network" Internet "text messages of users of the information and telecommunications network" Internet ", voice information, images, sounds, video, other electronic messages of users of the information and telecommunications network "Internet" everyone who organizes the dissemination of information on the Internet must store any electronic messages of users.

Who are the organizers of information dissemination?

Federal Law of 27.07.2006 N 149-FZ "On Information, Information Technologies and Information Protection" in the first part of Article 10.1 clearly defines that the organizers of the dissemination of information are the persons who ensure the operation of information systems and software used for receiving, transmitting and delivery of messages to the global Internet. In other words, these persons must be licensed by telecom operators. These persons must send a notification to Roskomnadzor about their inclusion in Register of organizers of information dissemination (ORI). Refusal to enter into this register entails administrative liability from 75 thousand rubles to 300 thousand rubles (according to the Administrative Offenses Code of the Russian Federation, Article 13.31. Failure to fulfill obligations by the organizer of the dissemination of information on the Internet). From July 1, 2018, it will be Roskomnadzor, and not the prosecutor's office, to issue fines.

"A fine of 300 thousand rubles - for failure to notify Roskomnadzor about the start of the work of the organizer of information dissemination"

At the same time, the existing practice of Roskomnadzor and the official letters of the ministry of communications indicate that not only telecom operators can belong to the category of organizers.

At the beginning of this year, a scandal erupted around one of the sites. The site decided to leave the ARI registry, it is enough to remove such a function as "sending private messages to the site." Roskomnadzor did not agree with this, citing the fact that users can still leave their messages under the news. Therefore, the site cannot be excluded from the register. The Ministry of Communications of the Russian Federation also agreed with the position of the supervisory authority.

Your website, your company and your personal page can fall under the Yarovaya package

As the Ministry of Communications of Russia points out, any sites where it is possible to exchange messages fall under the rules for storing information. This also includes comments posted by site users. In other words, almost all Runet sites, including online stores, blogs, and reviewers, should be included in the ORI register.

"Any person can be recognized as the organizer of the dissemination of information: legal or physical"

The list of conditions by which you fall under the "Yarovaya law":

On your site it is possible to leave comments under publications. It doesn't matter if visitors leave these comments or not.
Online stores with product reviews.
Any forum where users exchange messages.
Corporate or personal blog with commenting.
All messengers (Twitter, WhatsApp and others),
Social networks

Obviously, the owners of sites and Internet resources will sooner or later either have to enter the ARI register or fulfill certain requirements in order not to get there. The very fact of not being included in the ARI category does not exempt from the execution of the law and the rules for storing information. The register is needed for government agencies for the convenience of accounting. If you have not yet entered this register, this does not mean that you (your site) should not comply with the requirements of the Government Decree of June 26, 2018 No. 728 (download PDF document ).

What information are the organizers obliged to keep?

According to this Resolution, all organizers must store electronic messages (including voice messages, as well as images, sounds, video images) of users in software and hardware that are used by organizers of information dissemination in the information systems they operate, in full for 6 months from the moment of termination of reception, transmission, delivery and (or) processing of electronic messages.

The storage of electronic messages is necessary so that the bodies carrying out operational-search activities can gain access to them. The organizers are obliged to provide such access.

What information should organizers provide to security authorities?

At the request of government agencies, it is necessary to provide information about users who

registered using network addresses;
logged in using network addresses;
have indicated an identity document issued by a Russian government authority when registering or using the Internet service;
used to access the Internet devices or programs that transmit geographic data (metadata) to the Internet service, indicating their location (temporary location) in the country;
indicated when registering or using the functions of the Internet service as contact information, the telephone numbers allocated by Russian telecom operators when concluding an agreement with the subscriber on the provision of telecom services.

Which authorities need to provide this information?

This is stated in Article 13 of the Federal Law of August 12, 1995 No. 144-FZ (as amended on July 6, 2016) "On operational-search activities."

It lists the following departments:

Internal Affairs Bodies of the Russian Federation (MIA).
Federal Security Service (FSB).
Federal executive body in the field of state protection.
Customs authorities of the Russian Federation.
Foreign Intelligence Service of the Russian Federation.
Federal Penitentiary Service (FSIN)

A year ago, we talked about fines for violating the law on personal data. It became clear that few people knew about the law, which was many years old, and many site owners did not comply with it. Previously, the fines were small, but from July 1, one violation can lead to a loss of up to 75 thousand rubles. Everyone immediately decided to figure it out.

Then there was the hype with the Roskomnadzor registry, which included social networks, dating sites and instant messengers. Those who did not agree were blocked (we almost lost our Telegram, remember?). Roskomnadzor includes organizers of information dissemination in this register. And there may be your site, your company and you personally.

Almost any site can be recognized as an organizer. To do this, it is enough to give users the opportunity to comment, exchange messages and write reviews about products.

All owners of websites, blogs and forums need to understand how the law works for organizers of information dissemination. Most likely, you do not even think that it concerns you and you have additional responsibilities. But if they are not met, there is a danger of a fine. For example, 300 thousand rubles for not notifying Roskomnadzor about the start of work. Or a million rubles for the fact that you do not store data about users and their messages, or store them outside of Russia.

Who are the organizers of information dissemination?

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These are the owners of sites, programs and any tools that help to exchange electronic messages on the Internet: send, receive, send mailings and somehow process them.

There is no restriction in the law that these should only be legal entities or officially registered entrepreneurs. It's just some kind of face. And there is no condition that this person must have a business, a large portal or messenger with millions of users around the world. There are no conditions at all other than this definition.

Who can be recognized as such an organizer?

Formally, the status and responsibilities of the organizer arise by default. To become one, it is enough to launch a website, service or program where users can send and receive some messages.

Roskomnadzor maintains a register for organizers of information dissemination. The presence in this register means only one thing: the state has full information about the owner of a particular site. Departments know who owns sites from the register, how to contact this company and people, what they can ask them, who to send inquiries to or impose fines.

If a site is not in the registry, this does not mean that it is not an organizer and should not fulfill obligations under the law. This means that so far Roskomnadzor and the special services have not paid attention to the site.

Now there are 98 entries in the registry: there are instant messengers, women's forums, legal portals, regional media, blog platforms and search engines. Someone registered himself, someone was brought in by Roskomnadzor.

The other day the Roem-ru website wrote that it was also included in the list, although it does not consider itself an organizer. A few years ago, you could send private messages on the site. Roskomnadzor found out about this and entered the site into the register. Then the private messages were deleted and the portal's management wanted to leave the registry: they no longer provided any messaging service. At least, they thought so, given the uncertainty in the law.

But Roskomnadzor decided otherwise and did not exclude the site from the register. It's all about the comments under the news - this turned out to be enough for the site to be considered the organizer of the dissemination of information on the Internet. Now Royem LLC is still in the register under number 7-RR.

Any site that has comments below the articles. Even if no one leaves comments there, and the attendance is 20 people a day.
An online store with product reviews that other users can comment on.
Forum for fishermen, housewives and accountants. In general, any forum without restrictions on topics and activity of participants.
A site with messages from the robot in your personal account or when filling out a form.
Personal blog or corporate magazine with comments.

Are comments and reviews also emails?

Article 2 of Law 149-FZ says what an electronic message is. This is any information that is transmitted and received on the Internet. Comments under articles, reviews with the ability to comment and informal correspondence somewhere within the service are also emails.

This is the opinion of experts who advise Roskomnadzor: candidates of legal sciences, researchers and specialists in information law. If you are also interested in understanding, read the commentary on the law on information by A. I. Savelyev.

The UN Convention, which is also valid for Russia, also contains the concept of an electronic message. There it is even broader than in Russian law: even a file on a USB flash drive can be an electronic message.

System messages also make the site an organizer?

Yes, formally, system messages also fall under the definition of electronic messages. But unlike messages that users send to each other or leave in the comments, there are legal nuances here. System messages are not subject to the data retention rules set by the government. They do not need a server in Russia, and they are not of interest to government agencies.

Roskomnadzor notification of the start of work

You can notify Roskomnadzor yourself or send data in response to its request. And here is such a thing. By law, a site is considered an organizer of information dissemination when messages can be posted on it, and not when it enters the register. Decided to enter comments under the articles - you are automatically the organizer. And you should immediately send a notification to Roskomnadzor, and not wait for it to notice you and send a request. Otherwise, even individuals have a reason for a fine.

300,000 RUR

maximum fine for site operation without notifying Roskomnadzor

So far, the practice is developing in such a way that Roskomnadzor itself decides who needs to be entered in the register and sends requests to them. Then the site owner agrees, fills out a notice and is entered into the register. Or he doesn't agree, and access to him is blocked. It seems that only those who are already on the roster are considered organizers, but this is not the case. The register is needed for the convenience of departments and bodies. This makes it easier for them to find the owner of the site to request the information they need.

Now there are fewer than a hundred sites in the register, but this does not mean that others are not organizers. Roskomnadzor does not have enough time and resources to check and account for all forums, news portals and corporate blogs. And there is no purpose to control everyone either.

This does not mean that tomorrow you will not be fined because of the notice - according to the law, they have the right. At the same time, even if Roskomnadzor sends you a notification and you answer it in time, there may well be no fine. Now in practice it works exactly like this, but the requirements in the law are stricter, and they are officially in effect.

You decide whether to submit a notification or wait for a request. Maybe you will never receive such a request and the state will not be interested in you at all. Or maybe it is already interested in you and is still looking closely at your publications. Or with your publications everything is fine, but there is something interesting in the comments.

Data storage

All organizers of information dissemination must keep data about users and their messages for a year: protocols, logs, authorizations, payments and even spam.

Now this only concerns the facts of messages: one user wrote to another some text or left a comment on such and such a number and attached a video to it. From July 1, 2018, you need to store the messages themselves: texts, videos, pictures and sounds. True, only six months.

The rules of the government say what and how to store. All data during this time must be stored in Russia. In parallel, the server can be abroad, but in Russia it is obligatory.

1,000,000 RUR

maximum penalty for violation of data storage rules

Providing access to information

Another responsibility of the organizers is to provide the authorities with any information about users and their messages. There are several such bodies, and this is not only the FSB.

The government has approved special rules on how exactly the site owner should interact with the authorities. If interested - and a separate document. We will only add that a court decision is not necessary for this, and it is forbidden to talk about the interaction.

Let's say you have a comment site. Strange spammers come there and leave some kind of message of meaningless words. You rub these comments. A few days later, people from the FSB come to you and ask you to show the text of the messages and all the logs: where people came from, when and what they wrote. Suddenly it turned out that these were not meaningless words, but some codes. Such a request cannot be ignored. If the information has not been preserved or you did not store it in Russia, you will have to pay a fine - up to 5 thousand for individuals and up to a million for individual entrepreneurs and companies.

There are also requirements for automating access and decoding messages. Everything is not very clear there yet. And this definitely applies only to those sites that are of interest to the authorities. But they are also fined for this. Telegram, for example, was discharged 900 thousand rubles, and it was not possible to challenge this fine even in the Supreme Court.

If you write about fishing, personal finance, or cosmetics, while complying with the law and controlling the content of comments, you are unlikely to ever be affected. But if you or your guests are discussing incidents, politics, laws, religion, courts or something illegal, then you can seriously touch. This does not mean that this cannot be discussed, but freedom of speech and privacy of correspondence have restrictions even under the Constitution. If suddenly you receive a request, then you should definitely not follow the advice on the Internet. At the very least, you will develop a separate plan with the FSB, but you will not tell anyone about it. And you are unlikely to find out that some other site has already developed such a plan and gave access to correspondence: according to the law, you cannot talk about this.

User identification

Since 2018, organizers of information dissemination with built-in messengers have another responsibility: they must identify all users by phone numbers. It doesn't matter what the commentator's username or nickname is - the site owner must know and provide his phone number upon request.

We spoke in detail - there are other requirements for them. This does not apply to sites where instant private messages cannot be exchanged. That is, not every organizer of information dissemination is a messenger. But any messenger is an organizer.

Is a freelancer with a personal blog an organizer too?

There are exceptions in the law, when the site, although it looks like the organizer, but all these requirements do not apply to it. If the site was created by an individual for personal needs, then Roskomnadzor does not care about such a site, it will not get into the register and is not obliged to provide anything to government agencies.

The government has established a list of personal needs. If you have personally created a site and it covers your needs from this list, you should not fulfill the duties of the organizer of the dissemination of information:

Acquisition of knowledge, abilities, skills, experience for the purposes of intellectual, moral, cultural, creative, physical and professional development.
Education and Science.
Creation of the results of creative activity (this is exactly what it is written, we ourselves did not understand).
Purchase of goods, works, services, search for employees, posting vacancies.
Housekeeping, gardening, animal breeding.
Obtaining information about the characteristics and properties of goods, quality of services, results of work.
Rest and education of children.

If you, as an individual without a business, have created a website or maintain a blog in which you publish your articles about fish, children or self-development, you will not be included in the register, even if there are comments there. If you teach someone from your own experience how to write texts, design interfaces or lose weight, you also do not need to do anything - learn further.

When a personal or corporate blog is still an organizer

Not all personal websites and blogs will qualify for this exception. There are conditions when even personal blogs must fulfill the responsibilities of the organizer:

the number of users on the site or blog is more than 10,000;
posts and materials on social and political topics are published;
the blog is in the interests of a company;
you can send messages to everyone at once, indiscriminately.

An example with books. The publisher's marketer talks about the books his employer publishes. This seems to be a personal blog, but it really isn't. There are interests of a legal entity here, so the exception will not work and personal needs may not save you from the registry.

An example with stories about cities. The blogger writes on the website about architecture in cities, criticizing local authorities and supporting public and political statements in the comments. He, too, can get into the register. And he will get there all the more if, although he writes from himself, in fact, the site is designed for an individual entrepreneur or a company.

Example with taxes. The accountant tells in his personal blog how to save on taxes, issue an individual entrepreneur and keep accounting in the company. It seems that he does it on his own as an expert, but in fact he advertises his LLC this way. And this blog is part of the PR of an accounting firm or financial service.

There are no restrictions on the amount of information in the interests of companies or the frequency of publication of public policy posts. This is decided individually and not by you.

I have an individual entrepreneur and a small online store. Do these requirements concern me?

Yes, these requirements apply to everyone in general: individuals, entrepreneurs and firms. Personal exemptions apply only to ordinary people, but not entrepreneurs.

If you can leave comments on articles in your online store, discuss prices or characteristics of goods, you are the organizer of the dissemination of information. Formally, you are required to send a notification to Roskomnadzor. Fines for non-compliance with requirements for individual entrepreneurs are the same as for legal entities - 300 thousand for an unsent notification.

Why did you come up with this? Is this only in Russia?

This is not only in Russia. On the contrary, these norms appeared in our law much later than in other countries. In Europe and the United States, it is normal practice to issue traffic data at the request of law enforcement agencies. Our legislators have taken foreign experience and adapted it to Russian realities.

The main purpose of these changes is the fight against terrorism and crime. The government agencies that do this need access to the information that some sites or users distribute. It was difficult to obtain such access without this law, but easier with it.

After an intense public dialogue last week, the head of Roskomnadzor, Alexander Zharov, with the actual owner of the Telegram messenger, the service was added to the register of information dissemination organizers. How can events develop now, how long has this registry existed, are there any entries besides Telegram and will messengers appear there? Rossiyskaya Gazeta learned about this from the deputy head of Roskomnadzor Oleg Ivanov.

Roskomnadzor has been keeping a register of organizers of information dissemination since 2014. How does it fill up? Why is there tension around this registry now?

Oleg Ivanov: This register was indeed created in 2014 as a result of the adoption of the "anti-terrorist" package of amendments to the current legislation. This package introduced two new concepts into the legal field - "blogger" and "organizer of information dissemination". The latter definition includes any site on the Internet or online service that allows users to exchange messages or files. These are social networks, various forums and blogging platforms, messengers, file sharing, video hosting.

The main legislative requirement for the organizer of the dissemination of information is that he is obliged to ensure the storage of information about the actions of users for six months. And provide this information at the request of law enforcement agencies in the implementation of their operational search activities. First of all, in the prevention or investigation of terrorist attacks.

In order for state bodies to understand who they are dealing with and to know where to send their requests, the organizers of the dissemination of information are obliged to notify Roskomnadzor of the beginning of their activities. That is, provide a specific set of contact information. There are five identifiers in total: country of registration, legal address, domain name, postal and e-mail addresses of the company and hosting provider, as well as a general description of the service functions. These data are entered into the relevant register.

Companies are included in the register of organizers of information dissemination either at the request of law enforcement agencies, or at the initiative of the service itself. As of yesterday, the register contains information about 85 organizers of information dissemination - first of all, those who informed about themselves on their own initiative.

There are ten foreign companies in it. Among them are companies that manage popular file hosting services (Depositfiles, Letitbit, etc.), browsers (Opera Software), video hosting (Vimeo), messengers (WeChat, Threema, Telegram).

The adoption in 2016 of amendments to the Law "On Countering Terrorism" served as an impetus for strengthening the work of ministries and departments to implement this law.

There is an opinion that after registration in this register, the Russian special services are able to read user correspondence. How true is it?

Oleg Ivanov: This is not true - the law on the organizers of the dissemination of information does not require either storing or transmitting the content of the correspondence. From what network address the person involved in the investigation went to the Internet, what sites he visited, with whom he corresponded, who he called in the messenger, at what time, and so on. The content of the users' correspondence itself is not required by the law on organizers of information dissemination to be stored or transferred.

The obligations of the organizer of the dissemination of information arise by virtue of the law, and not the fact of entry into the register. If your service meets the definition of a disseminator, you are already obligated to do what the law requires.

The inclusion of the organizer of information dissemination in the register means the company's readiness to work in the Russian legal field, follow the requirements of national legislation, and ensure the storage of information for anti-terrorist purposes.

Who else did you send your requests for registration in the registry to? Will it include, say, such popular services in Russia as WhatsApp or Viber?

Oleg Ivanov: We are in direct dialogue with most of the largest international IT companies and services - Apple, Twitter, Facebook and WhatsApp, Google, Microsoft, Viber and others. Personal meetings and consultations with their representatives are held. We respect the companies' right to confidentiality of negotiations, therefore we do not publish the results of their intermediate stages in the public field. These companies are now in the process of deciding whether to be included in our register. You need to understand that these are global corporations with a complex management system and coordination of legally significant actions. But the company's desire for cooperation is important for us. If explicitly indicated, we have procedural opportunities to provide the service with the additional time it takes to agree on a final decision.

On the contrary, if a company avoids dialogue, ignores our demands, or broadcasts a clear unwillingness to comply with them through the media, we are obliged to apply the sanctions provided for by law. In the case of the organizers of the dissemination of information, this is an administrative fine of up to 300 thousand rubles or blocking on the territory of Russia. As you understand, only companies registered in the Russian jurisdiction can be fined. For foreign companies, blocking their services in Russia is an uncontested measure of influence.

The register includes 85 organizers of information dissemination. There are more of those who notified themselves about themselves

At the moment, there are several foreign companies that have refused to register their services in the register of information dissemination organizers. Four foreign resources are blocked - Zello, Line, BlackBerryMessenger, PaulKeever.

Blocking the organizer of the dissemination of information is not an eternal measure. What do companies need to do to remove the lock? How long does the unlocking procedure take?

Oleg Ivanov: You are right, the blocking lasts exactly until the legal requirements are met. An example is the Chinese messenger WeChat. The blocking of this resource in May of this year lasted a week. After TencentHoldings provided the required information, we verified its accuracy, and access to the messenger was immediately resumed. I associate this incident with the difficulties of international communication. The administrators of the Chinese resource simply did not pay attention to the request from Russia in time - they confirmed this to us later. To resolve this situation, we had to use diplomatic channels.

Does Roskomnadzor's work with them end with the entry into the register of organizers of information dissemination?

Oleg Ivanov: Yes, then direct communication between the service and the Russian special services begins. I repeat - this does not mean at all that all correspondence is read. But law enforcement agencies should be able to make sure that Mr. N is really involved in terrorist or extremist activities, to suppress his public work on the Web, and also to disclose his criminal connections. This is the normal work of intelligence agencies all over the world.

Oleg Ivanov: The law on organizers of information dissemination does not require either storing or transferring the content of users' correspondence. Photo: RIA Novosti

After an intense public dialogue with the head of Roskomnadzor, Alexander Zharov, the founder and actual owner of the Telegram messenger Pavel Durov last week agreed to include Telegram in the department's register. However, he continues to broadcast on his social networks the position that the messenger will not transmit a single bit of information about users to the world's secret services. How do you feel about such behavior of Durov?

Oleg Ivanov: The anonymity of the messenger and the absolute confidentiality of communications inside it (including through the use of end-to-end encryption in "secret" chats) is the "chip" around which Telegram has built its entire marketing campaign. This is the basis for the reputation identification of the service and personally of Pavel Durov. I believe that Pavel Valerievich will continue to broadcast this position in the public field. However, it is difficult to predict what he will do when the special services, with facts in hand, prove to him that a terrorist act is being prepared with the help of Telegram. What will he choose - the abstract value of online anonymity or the lives of specific people?

Besides, in my opinion, there are two types of anonymity. That anonymity that protects the privacy of users is a blessing. Such anonymity is in fact protected not only by the IT industry, but also by states. For example, the right to privacy of correspondence is guaranteed by the Constitution of the Russian Federation, and the law on organizers of information dissemination, as I said, does not encroach on this constitutional right of citizens. However, there is another anonymity that allows terrorists to hide their criminal plans. And this is unacceptable in the civilized world. It is necessary to separate these concepts.

There are domestic messengers in Russia. State messengers are about to be launched, which the Internet Development Institute claims. Should they be included in the register too?

Oleg Ivanov: On the part of the Russian organizers of the dissemination of information, we see a complete understanding of all law enforcement processes. None of them claim any privileges in the implementation of the law. All of them are in the Russian legal field, declare full compliance with all legislative requirements and in fact comply with them.

How promising are messengers and can they be distinguished from other communication services?

Oleg Ivanov: The classic messenger is a closed system. All communication between users takes place inside it, and the ability to send any information to an external resource depends not only on the capabilities of the messenger itself, but also on the capabilities of the operating system of your computer or mobile gadget. I believe that if in the near future someone implements an integrated interface that will allow you to use all the instant messengers installed on your device at the same time, then it will probably be a business success. And the future, in my opinion, still belongs to technology that will combine the capabilities of a browser, social network, messenger, mail, online shopping, and so on. I think that it will not take too long to wait for this. The process of mutual penetration of these services is already going on quite intensively.

Published on 6/30/18 12:59 PM

The journalists found out which resources will soon have to be used with extreme caution.

Internet companies entered in the register of organizers of information dissemination (ORI), starting from July 1, 2018, will be obliged to store the correspondence of Russian users for six months and transmit this information to special services upon request. Meduza's journalists found out which of the popular services among Russians agreed to such cooperation, and what is better to use with caution in the future.

So, almost all Russian services were included in the ORI register and not intkbbee Westerners got there, however, it seems that this is of little concern to Roskomnadzor.

Experts recommend using the VKontakte messaging function and other social network services with caution, possibly with the exception of audio and video calls, where, according to the developers, end-to-end encryption is used.

"Odnoklassniki" never mentioned end-to-end encryption, and, apparently, any data and correspondence of users are stored in clear text and can be transferred to special services, the newspaper writes.

From Yandex, email and cloud storage got to the ORI register. Despite the fact that the company supports data encryption, it remains at its disposal itself access to letters and files of users.

Mail.ru's registry includes mail, cloud storage, the My World social network and the Mail.Ru Agent messenger, which can be used to communicate in ICQ, VKontakte, Odnoklassniki and even Facebook.

American Google did not say anything about preparations for the Yarovaya package, but unofficial sources reported back in 2015 that the company was transferring data from Russian users to servers in the Russian Federation.

Telegram is in open opposition to the transfer of data to intelligence agencies. At the same time, end-to-end encryption is used only in secret chats of the service, and ordinary user correspondence is stored on the company's servers.

Viber said last March that it was not going to transfer keys to encrypt user messages to the special services, and all correspondence in the messenger was end-to-end protected. The Yarovaya Law contradicts Viber's policy, and Roskomnadzor did not include it on the ORI list.

At WatsApp, Roskomnadzor has not yet seen the need to be included in the ORI, and the messenger's chats use end-to-end encryption.

Facebook has not yet been included in the ORI list, but Roskomnadzor has threatened to block the service if the company does not meet halfway, the publication reminds. Chats on social networks are not protected by end-to-end encryption, but you can enable it yourself in the settings.

According to Roskomnadzor, Twitter in 2017 agreed to store the personal data of Russians in the Russian Federation, although the official representatives of the service did not comment on this information. The social network provides an unprotected end-to-end encryption private messaging service.

The popular photo service Instagram is not yet in the ARI registry. Other information about this social network has not yet been provided.

We add that many large companies have entered the ORI register, including Mamba, Rambler, Moy Krug, Habrhabr and others. The complete list is given on the website

The Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications of the Russian Federation believes that the presence of a particular site of functions that allow users to leave comments is a sufficient basis for the inclusion of a resource in the register of organizers of information dissemination (ORI). This is stated in the response of the department to the request of the editors of the site. Roem.ru, which was added to the registry in 2014 and is now trying to get it removed.

According to the definition of the law, the organizer of the dissemination of information "is a person carrying out activities to ensure the functioning of information systems and (or) programs for electronic computers, which are intended and (or) used to receive, transmit, deliver and (or) process electronic messages from users ". From the point of view of the Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications, comments are electronic messages, while the editors of the site adhere to the opposite point of view.

To date, there are only 98 entries in the ARI register maintained by Roskomnadzor, although the number of sites on which users can leave comments is in the tens, if not hundreds of thousands. As noted by Roem.ru, from this point of view, it can be considered that Roskomnadzor and the Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications perform their duties poorly.

According to the law, organizers of the dissemination of information are obliged to store on the territory of Russia data on the facts of receiving, transmitting and processing voice information, written text, images, sounds, video or other electronic messages of users within six months from the date of completion of such actions, and after entering into By virtue of the "Yarovaya Law" on July 1, 2018, this period will be increased to one year and companies will also have to store the content of conversations, messages and other user content for up to six months. Companies must provide these data upon request to authorized bodies, for example, the FSB.

Last year, the Telegram messenger was added to the registry. The introduction of information about the service founded by Pavel Durov was preceded by a conflict with Roskomnadzor, and Durov himself stated that the company did not assume any obligations and would not comply with the anti-constitutional and technically unrealizable "Yarovaya law", like other laws incompatible with protection privacy and Telegram privacy policy.

Soon after the messenger was included in the ORI register, the FSB demanded that the company provide encryption keys, but the Telegram administration did not fulfill the requirement, and the service was worth 800 thousand rubles. At present, Telegram representatives are challenging the FSB order in the Supreme Court, on the basis of which the special service obtains encryption keys.