Experts criticize, players remain silent

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The very next day after the bill was adopted in the first reading, the working group of the Internet industry published claims to its provisions, formulated by RAEC. According to the association, the bill contradicts existing international agreements, deprives Russian citizens of the right to manage their own data, calls into question the existence of many services, such as booking airline tickets or hotels, and requires significant expenses from Internet companies, which will be passed on to consumers.

RAEC sent amendments to the bill to the State Duma, but they were ignored. Other industry representatives also tried to influence the legislators. In particular, Alexey Lukatsky, a well-known RuNet information security specialist and member of the Roskomnadzor Advisory Council, wrote a letter to Roskomnadzor with his amendments.

He also proposes to prohibit the storage of personal data outside school principals email database the Russian Federation only by state and municipal bodies, as well as operators who process personal data for the purpose of providing government services. Lutsky's proposals were also ignored. In his opinion, in its current form, the law will only work manually.

Alexey Lukatsky
Member of the Advisory Board of Roskomnadzor
"In its current form, the law will be applied to foreign social networks. First of all, to Twitter, which recently made a rather unflattering statement. Roskomnadzor said that Twitter had agreed to delete some accounts, and then Twitter said that it would not delete anything. So this is one of the first candidates for the application of the law. Then it will be the turn of other foreign Internet companies, such as Facebook and Google."

Most industry representatives agree that the bill will not be fully implemented, but will be used selectively to block unwanted services.

Mikhail Emelyannikov
Managing Partner of the Consulting Agency "Emelyannikov, Popova and Partners"
"It will, of course, be impossible to implement it in full, because the jurisdiction of the law ends at the border of the Russian Federation, and foreign companies do not care about our laws. But it will be very easy to block Russians' access to any foreign Internet resource."

Market players also agree with the experts. According to Alexey Bakhtiarov, CEO of the hosting company Infobox, the law is unable to protect the personal data of Russian users.