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Into Mail.ru Group: New Rules technically unfeasible. To pay will be the users

Enjoy a few in Russia Into the passage of the web under the control of intelligence services according to an ordinance of the Ministry of Communications, under which the Federal Security Service (FSB) will have full access to data of individuals using the Internet in the country.

Into One of the largest Russian Internet company Mail.ru Group said that the new rules for the monitoring of Internet traffic are technically impracticable and contrary to the Constitution of the Russian Federation. In addition, experts say, the move will be able to significantly increase the costs and contribute to raising the price of tariffs for access to the Web of ordinary citizens.

Into As explained by the newspaper Kommersant , and in particular by the expert Anastasia Kosheleva, to pay back the equipment for special services, service providers will be forced to raise prices for the ‘access to the Internet. Higher prices have a significant impact on the cost of all the companies on the Web

Into In response, the Ministry of Communications, argued that the creation of the system persoddisfare the requirements of the new order does not require global investments. Earlier it was reported that since 2008 the telecommunications operators are required to install the SORM, that the equipment required for the research of the security services and connect its own network equipment special for the recording and storage of Internet traffic.

Into The draft ordinance prepared in the spring, has been pre-arranged with the FSB (former KGB) and must be registered with the Ministry of Justice. Control the profiles of people registered on social networking sites, chat users as ICQ – the most widely used in Russia – and subscribers of Internet telephony.

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