Russian IT industry may be exempted from scheduled inspections
The initiative implies ban on implementing planned control and supervision measures in relation to IT organizations , including fire supervision inspections, the Federal Service for Surveillance on Consumer Rights Protection and Human Wellbeing, the Social Insurance Fund, labor inspection, and other organizations.
MOSCOW, March 15. /TASS/. The Russian government is considering exempting Russian IT companies from scheduled inspections. Such measure may be included in the second support package for the industry, Vedomosti wrote on Monday with reference to press service of Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Chernyshenko.
According to the document on the industry support from the Ministry of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Media, the initiative implies ban on implementing planned control and supervision measures in relation to IT organizations , including fire supervision inspections, the Federal Service for Surve
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The new coronavirus pandemic and related lockdown measures triggered a significant increase in digital control over people in many countries. Government agencies monitor data from mobile operators on the movements and contacts of their clients, collect personal data, and make use of cameras connected to facial recognition systems and many other technologies. Members of the public are rightfully concerned about their governments’ active encroachment into what was recently their personal space.
The fight against the pandemic has merely legitimized and brought into the spotlight technologies that had already been in use around the world for years. And we can expect increased digital control to remain in effect in Russia and many other countries even after the pandemic is over.
Russia says it is slowing access to Twitter
By Anton Troianovski and Andrew E. Kramer New York Times,Updated March 10, 2021, 11:12 p.m.
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A mobile phone user turns on Twitter application on his smartphone in Moscow, Russia, March 10.Alexander Zemlianichenko
MOSCOW â The Russian government said Wednesday that it was slowing access to Twitter, accusing the social network of failing to remove illegal content and signaling that the Kremlin is escalating its offensive against US internet companies that have long provided a haven for freedom of expression.
It was a landmark step in a country where the internet has essentially remained free despite President Vladimir Putinâs authoritarian rule. But it did not go off without a hitch: As media regulators tried to slow access to Twitter, dozens of Russian government websites went offline for about an hour, a crash that some experts said most likely stemmed from a technical glitch in the stateâs move against