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The Minister criticized McDonald’s for anonymous Wi-Fi

The network of McDonald’s restaurants in Russia has not fulfilled the requirement for user authentication Wi-Fi, said the Minister of communications and mass media Nikolai Nikiforov at the government communications Commission, which was chaired by Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich. This was reported on the website of the Ministry of communications.

“Despite the fact that there are a lot of ways, not all public access points to the Internet has complied with the requirements of the Russian legislation”, – said Nikiforov. The Minister further said that “visitors of Russia’s largest network of fast food outlets still use public Internet access without registration. According to a source who attended a legal Commission, in particular, was about the McDonald’s restaurants.

As an example, organization, fulfilling requirements for the organization of public networks, Nikiforov has led the Metropolitan subway. Nikiforov reminded that the operator Wi-Fi network in the subway, the company “Maximalism”, has enabled the identification of all users by mobile phone numbers, and as of may 2015 registered subscriber base of the network has exceeded 4.5 million people.

The Minister also said that he considered necessary to amend the Code of administrative offences liability of legal persons and private entrepreneurs for the creation of public networks that do not provide user authentication and user equipment.

Representatives of McDonald’s has not yet commented on the Minister’s statement.

We will remind, in July 2014, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev signed a government resolution that obliged the operators to identify users connecting to Wi-Fi in public areas. To identify users invited by SMS or by creating a special form to fill out.

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