State Duma deputies adopted in the second and third readings a bill that introduces administrative fines for website owners for violating user authorization rules. For using foreign services, including foreign email (e.g., Gmail), legal entities face fines of up to 700,000 rubles, officials up to 50,000, and individuals up to 20,000. The document was initiated by a group of deputies led by Anton Gorelkin.
Current legislation requires authorization in Russia to be carried out via a domestic phone number, public services portal, unified biometric system, or Russian information systems. For repeated violations, fines will increase: for individuals up to 40,000, for officials up to 100,000, and for legal entities up to 1.4 million rubles.
The law also concerns recommendation technologies. For collecting data on the preferences of Russian users in violation of their rights, for failing to inform about the operation of such systems, or for not posting rules and contacts on the website, legal entities face fines of up to 700,000 rubles, and for repeated violations, up to 1.4 million.
In addition, the Code of Administrative Offenses was supplemented with an article on the responsibility of communication operators for violating rules of interaction with law enforcement agencies during operational-investigative activities. For disclosing methods of conducting such activities, a fine of up to 5 million rubles is provided. A repeated violation will cost from one hundredth to three hundredths of annual revenue, but not less than 10 million rubles. Previously, the lower threshold was 1 million.
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