Senator Anton Belyakov proposed to move the entry into force of anti-terrorist amendments Irina Spring and Viktor Ozerov July 2023. The bill has already been introduced in the state Duma of the Russian Federation.
“This bill proposes to postpone the date the Law enters into force from 1 July 2018 until July 1, 2023”, — reported in the document, which is available in the electronic database of the lower house of Parliament.
According to him, currently Russia does not have the capabilities required to create suitable conditions for the execution of the “law of Spring”. In particular, the country will have to double the number of data centers.
In addition, the Senator fears that such a short time to prepare for anti-terrorism project may lead to the forced placement “of such a large and strategically important order” abroad.
Belyakov added that if the law will come into force in 2018, “growth rates of national operators of telecommunications services for Russian consumers” will be inevitable. In the explanatory Memorandum he recalled that “the head of the Ministry Nikolai Nikiforov predicts the possibility of a rise in price of communication services by 300%”.
President Vladimir Putin signed a package prepared by the head of the Duma Committee for security and combating corruption Irina Yarovaya and Senator Viktor Ozerov, July 7, 2016. According to the “anti-terrorist” law, information about the facts of the exchange of data of Russian users operators are required to store up to three years, and the Internet service providers up to one year. The actual content of the messages should be stored up to six months.
At the moment the petition against the “Spring package” has collected more than 580 000 votes on the website Change.org. On the portal “Russian public initiative”, which also is collecting signatures against antiterroristicheskoi amendments voted 76 000 people.
