To the origins...
July 4, 2016 Irina Yarovaya gave on the channel "Russia 24". Let me reprint a small fragment from it:
“The law does not require the storage of information. The law only gives the Government of the Russian Federation the right to decide within 2 years whether something should be stored or not. To what extent? In relation to what slice of information? Those. The law does not regulate this issue at all. The law establishes only the powers of the Government to determine it. At the same time, we limit the Government in its expression of will by saying that when you determine the procedure, terms, conditions of storage that you accept, it should cover time frames from 0 days to 6 months. It might be 12 hours. It could be 24 hours. Those. These are questions that need to be calculated technically.”
So…
Not even 2 years have passed since the Government deigned to decide and express its .
Let's start debriefing
About retention periods
In terms of voice and SMS, no additional fantasy happened. Six months is six months.
In terms of telematics, they gave up slack - 1 month.
What do we store?
Despite heated discussions about the pointlessness of storing Exabytes of encrypted information, the miracle did not happen. The government decided that EVERYTHING should be kept.
UPD: in light of recent events (switching to https and universal VPNization), there is less and less sense in storing what is downloaded from the Internet.
“The requirements for the applied technical means of information accumulation are established by the Ministry of Communications in agreement with the FSB”.
Well written. Let's figure it out:
- accumulation is the underwater part of the iceberg. Everything is complicated with it, but at least it’s clear - we take a large storage and add it up. Excuse me, but where is the part of the iceberg that is responsible for the removal of information? I think that I will not reveal secrets - in our country, far from all telephony has switched to IP, which is “easily taken”. What do we do with TDM and analogue?
- there are no such requirements at the moment. They have yet to be developed, approved and put into operation by operators. It doesn’t sound difficult, but the deadline is July 1 already this year for some reason no one got it.
About storage start date
In this sense, too, little has changed - July 1 for voice and October 1 for data (given a delay). Good, but how to order, purchase, deliver, assemble and start-up a “mountain” of equipment by such a date?
About 15% traffic growth per year
This is something completely new and has not yet been used in modern practice. In fact, the Government says that it is necessary to limit the consumption of communication services by subscribers. But the rise in tariffs is inevitable and consumption by itself should decrease. Or, in light of recent events with Telegram, we will block most of the Internet, and consumption will decrease naturally. Well, let's see...
Double standards
In general, the document is strange. On the one hand, the dates of the beginning of the “recording of everything” are clearly spelled out. On the other hand, there is a reservation that the date of putting the technical means of accumulating information into operation is the date of signing the act with the FSB. Does this mean that on July 1 all operators will be required to comply with the Federal Law, or will an “individual approach” be applied to operators of various subordination (“the act is at the stage of signing ...”)?
And what to do with the accumulated information?
The law explicitly states that operators have a responsibility to store and provide data. The decision under discussion does not say anything about the provision of data. What would it all mean?
We draw conclusions ourselves ...
Source: habr.com