The law of Spring threatens Russian operators billions in fines from the EU
Among the exabytes of traffic stored in the interests of Russian state security, will be the personal data of EU citizens, it is contrary to European norms.
The law Irina Yarovaya about the storage of data can threaten the Russian cellular companies huge fines, reports the Institute for Internet research, studied the new regulations of the European Union (EU) data protection. The EU will introduce new standards of data processing in may 2018.
Their violation, including foreign companies, can lead to serious fines — up to EUR 20 million or up to 4% of annual global revenue, depending on which amount is greater. If you count the penalty, starting from the latest figures, the big four Russian operators will have to pay a fine to a total size of about 45 billion rubles.
In contradiction with the new regulations is entering the so-called law of Spring. The package of anti-terrorist amendments authorship then still of the Deputy of the state Duma and the Spring member of the Federation Council Viktor Ozerov, enacted last summer, requires the Russian operators starting in July 2018, to store the traffic of all customers for six months. Final storage conditions — the timing and types of traffic that need to be stored, must be determined by the government, until this is done.
In the act of Spring no laws restricting or prohibiting the possession of the traffic of foreign citizens or subjects.
This is evidenced by the analyst of the Russian Association of electronic communications Karen Ghazaryan. If the Russian company will store user data from the EU without his consent or provide this data to the Russian law enforcement bodies without a court decision, it will violate the new regulations.
And such cases are inevitable, said Ghazaryan: first, live in Russia and use local communication services to European citizens, and secondly, the Russians, the activities of which secret services are interested in, can chat and talk with subscribers from Europe.