Social networks, “advised” to register with the Russian Federation – BBC Russian

• September 26, 2014

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Roscomnadzor requires websites to store user data for six months

Roscomnadzor sent American internet resources Facebook, Gmail and Twitter notifications requested to register as “communicators” in Russia.

In this case, as explained Russian service Bi-bi-si spokesman Vadim Ampelonsky departments, it is not a legally valid petition, it is rather a council.

“The formation of the registry is currently happening at the expense of mostly Russian sites – in fact all the vanguard of the Russian segment of the Internet have registered in our service. sites occurs with foreign exchange advisory, but because of the law enforcement agencies have not yet had queries about the registration of these services, then we are not talking about significant legal notifications that trigger compulsory registration “- said he is.

According Ampelonskogo, Facebook, Gmail and Twitter may be able to register “on its own initiative” without waiting for the requirements of law enforcement officers.

“We calmly deal with the” Facebook “,” by Google “and” Twitter “, do not rush them and we press – we are waiting for them to take appropriate decisions. Question Time “- added official Roskomnadzora.

In the London press office” Twitter “Russian service Bi-bi-si could not give a comment on the communication with the agency.

No answer remained requests in Facebook, Google and VK.

“A bunch of documents”

At the bottom of the current action supervisor are amendments to the law “On Information”, which came effect on August 1.

We calmly deal with the “Facebook” , “google” and “Twitter”, do not rush them and we press – we are waiting for them to take appropriate decisions. Question Time

Vadim Ampelonsky

According to the amended document, sites, processing correspondence network users must register and keep the correspondence users for six months, otherwise the organization faces a fine of 500 thousand. rubles ($ 13 thousand. dollars).

Those same amendment introduced compulsory registration for popular bloggers – those whose audience is more than three thousand people per day. They will have to comply with the same requirements as registered media.

Major industry internet site “Habrahabr” was already in the registry, which gave a lot of trouble to its founder Denis Kryuchkov.

According to the registration procedure, the site owner must apply through a registered legal entity of public services online.

“We have a registration was not, but to create it, you need a digital signature, which is done at least three days. In turn to get the signature, you need to collect a bunch of documents, “- said the online edition Kryuchkov Village.

Entrepreneur at Office received a reprieve. According to his calculations, the additional equipment that allows to meet the requirements Roskomnadzora, had to spend a million rubles.

Roscomnadzor also has registered some services Mail.ru Group, “Yandex” social network “VKontakte” dating sites Wamba .ru and Mamba.ru, as well as a project for IT-specialists Roem.ru.