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The Yarovaya package came into force on July 1, 2018. The Government has signed data storage requirements and therefore forced all mobile operators and Internet-providers start to develop the special programmes designed for information storage and, just as important, for equipment reconfiguration. Apart from violations of constitutional rights of the Russian Federation citizens, all these measures can significantly affect on telecom service prices.
From July 1 the Russian telecoms providers are obliged to store content of the telephone calls of all users within six months. This measure aims to provide the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Federal Security Service quickly access to such data. It does mean that the telephone calls will be recorded on the Russian Federation territory and then information will come to the big database containing hundreds of petabytes (more than one terabyte) of data. After October 1, 2018 the operators and the Internet-providers will have to store data, including encrypted, about Internet-traffic of all their users for 30 days. The so-called Yarovaya law obliges to collect videos, sounds, images, voice messages and other data up to copies of visited websites. The most well-known messengers and social media are covered by the requirements. From now many experts recommend be more accuracy and watching out for information to be passed even if it contains said in jest information running against laws or morals. Also they advise do not use the services for passing private information.
“By the fact it's a question of deforcing the Russians of the rights to privacy of family, home and correspondence. According to the RF Criminal Code, one of the forms of the privacy violation is to collect and store these data, even afterwards it wouldn't be disclosed. The similar position became the basis for the Federal Law on Personal Data. It prohibits any unauthorized data processing which includes gathering, systematization, accumulation, storage and so on. In fact, the Government position that new requirements don't encroach on constitutional rights of our citizens, are in contrast to reality,” the Candidate of Science (Law), Alexander Shigurov believes.
Furthermore, the Yarovaya package is able to affect on the price for telephone calls and Internet services which don't bode well for seafarers. If many seafarers used the roaming service of mobile networks and Internet at sea, now the price of these services and the mobile communications in whole would probably rise. The shipping companies could feel the changes. Even now there are not so many shipowners providing their crews to Internet access. For example, the monthly cost of ShipSat system, which integrates some satellite technologies, is $1300. Only a few companies are ready to pay this sum. When the providers rise their service cost, the shipowners already using the same technologies on their ships will be able to restrict the bandwidth or time of Internet access and subsequently affect on mental well-being of seafarers.
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