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special services by telecom operators remains extremely low, FSB representative Alexander Samoilov said at the Spektr 2023 forum.

"Since 2016, regulatory legal acts have been adopted to combat extremist and terrorist activities using information and telecommunications technologies, the so-called Yarovaya package of laws, they establish the obligations of communications operators to accumulate, store, and provide authorized law enforcement agencies with information regarding their users. It is important to emphasize that operators are obliged to comply with these requirements, and they algeria whatsapp resource are separately spelled out in the terms of licensing the activities of operators," he said.

of the "Yarovaya Law" in terms of installing technical means for operational-search activities on their networks remains extremely low," Samoilov added.

He named the main reasons for this as “the presence on the market of a significant number of unscrupulous operators providing services in violation of the law,” as well as the current moratorium on inspections of their activities.

According to Samoilov, telecom operators "use various methods to avoid responsibility, for example, formally signing contracts for interaction with the authorized body without further implementation of the necessary equipment, refusing current licenses in favor of obtaining new ones, changing legal entities."

"To solve this problem, the FSB, together with the Ministry of Digital Development and Communications and Roskomnadzor, regularly implement measures to increase the responsibility of unscrupulous operators," he said.

"An analysis of judicial practice shows that when considering in court materials on offenses related to the operator's refusal to implement SORM (a system of operational-search measures), a decision is often made to impose a punishment in the form of an administrative fine less than the minimum amount for individual entrepreneurs or small and medium-sized businesses. Accordingly, (a fine of) 3 to 100 thousand rubles is imposed," said the FSB representative.

He added that in these circumstances it is easier for the operator to pay minor fines than to install expensive equipment.

From January 1, 2024, for failure to comply with these requirements, turnover fines will be introduced from the amount of the company's revenue for the provision of communications services, but not less than one million rubles, Samoilov said.

"This amount, in our opinion, will be proportionate to the operator's costs for purchasing or renting the corresponding equipment," explained the representative of the special service.

He also reported that work is underway to exclude telecom operators from the moratorium on inspections.