To the roots ...
July 4, 2016 Irina Yarovaya gave an interview on the channel "Russia 24". Allow me to quote a small fragment of it:
“The law does not offer to keep information. The law gives only the right to the Government of the Russian Federation to decide within 2 years whether it is necessary to keep something or not. How much? Regarding what cutoff information? Those. The law does not regulate this issue at all. The law establishes only the authority of the Government to determine it. At the same time, we limit the Government in its expression of its will by saying that when you determine the order, terms, storage conditions that you accept, it should cover a time frame from 0 days to 6 months. It may be 12 hours. It can be 24 hours. Those. these are questions that must be calculated technically. "
So...
Less than 2 years later, the Government deigned to decide and express its will .
Let's start parsing
About storage time
In part of the voice and SMS, no extra fantasy happened. Half a year is half a year.
In part of the telematics they gave up slack - 1 month.
What is stored?
Despite heated discussions about the senselessness of storing Exabytes of encrypted information, a miracle did not happen. The government decided to keep EVERYTHING.
UPD: in the light of recent events (the transition to https and universal VPN-izatsiya), there is less and less sense in storing what is downloaded from the Internet.
Well written. Let's understand:
- Accumulation is the underwater part of an iceberg. Everything is difficult with it, but at least it is understandable - we take a large storage and fold it. Let me, where is the part of the iceberg that is responsible for picking up information? I think that I will not reveal secrets - in our country not all telephony has switched to IP, which is "easily taken." What do we do with TDM and analog?
- At the moment, these requirements are not. They have yet to be developed, approved and lowered to operators "in work". It doesn’t sound difficult, but the deadline - for some reason this year, on July 1, nobody suffered.
About the start date of storage
In this sense, too, little has changed - July 1 for a voice and October 1 for data (given a delay). Good, but how to order, purchase, deliver, mount and start-up the "mountain" of equipment by that date?
About traffic growth of 15% per year
This is something completely new and has not yet been applied in modern practice. In fact, the Government says that it is necessary to limit the consumption of communication services by subscribers. But the growth of tariffs is inevitable and consumption itself should decrease. Or, in the 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 start dates of the "total record" are explicitly stated. On the other hand, there is a reservation that the date of entry of technical means for accumulating information into operation is the date of signing the act with the FSB. Does this mean that on July 1, all operators will require the execution of the Federal Law or an “individual approach” will be applied to operators of different subordination (“the act is at the signing stage ...”)?
The law explicitly states that it is the responsibility of the operators to store and provide data. In the resolution under discussion, nothing is said about the provision of data. What would it all mean?
We draw conclusions ourselves ...