The Ministry of Digital Development has sent an ultimatum to IT companies: either the platform itself cuts off access to clients with circumvention enabled, or it is excluded from the "white lists", loses IT accreditation and tax preferences, Kommersant found out. The price for business is a drop in traffic and additional costs for improving security systems.
The technical implementation of the requirements stumbles upon the impossibility of 100% detection. The departmental methodology proposes a three-stage check — from checking IP addresses to scanning the device with a proprietary application, but it itself warns of a barrage of false positives due to corporate networks and antiviruses.
Currently, Roskomnadzor maintains a "white list" of approximately 75 thousand IP addresses of legitimate VPNs, but the mechanism for transmitting data about user-violators has not yet been legally formalized, and the IP address is considered personal data.
The result for the online trading market has already been calculated by AKIT. Estimates of companies' costs for reconfiguring the architecture range from reallocating development budgets to a 20% increase in IT costs. While major players like Ozon and Wildberries have already started filtering, the industry is preparing for a drop in audience, rightly believing that the user will quickly find a new proxy server than the developer will have time to update the blacklists.
