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22/02/2021

Opinion: Control over the major Internet platforms in Russia is increasing. In early February, the Upper House of Parliament in Russia proposed to block social networks for announcements of protests that were not coordinated with the authorities.

“At the moment, Russian authorities are trying to build an analogue of the Chinese censorship which consists of three filters. One intermediate filter already exists with us since 2013 – this is blocking of the resources with operators. Roskomnadzor and the authorities are building another filter under the law of the sovereign internet to install special equipment on the nodes of the telecom operators so that all the incoming and outgoing traffic could be filtered – an analogue of the Chinese firewall. They want to install the third filter at the level of social networks, "says Sarkis Darbinyan, managing partner of the Digital Rights Centre.

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16/02/2021

Today the prosecutor's office in Russia renounced their claim to block the site of crypto exchange aggregator Bestchange. Bestchange is represented by Digital Rights Center.
According to the lawyer Valeria Smirnova, the prosecutor explained the refusal to block the site with the provisions of 'Law about Digital Financial Assets' which came into force on the 1st of January 2021.
"In fact, entry into force of this law only proved the accuracy of our position, saying that the spread of information about cryptocurrencies has never been prohibited. The legislator only needed time to introduce new legal relations into the legal field,” said Valeria.
Read more in Russian: https://lnkd.in/dmT7T2b

15/02/2021

Russian President Vladimir Putin gave a reason of possible shut down of foreign Internet resources. As he said, he doesn't have any will to "artificially screw up and tighten" anything but, in the case of "hostile actions" maintained by such foreign sources, this becomes highly possible.

Read full text in Russian below:
https://lnkd.in/dVAh6eg

12/02/2021

The recent news announced that Mastercard will support digital currency transactions. Unfortunately for Russia this news may not work due to the local legislation specificities.
The partner of Digital Rights Center law firm Mike Tretyak in his interview with Forklog noted that Mastercard implements transactions with digital assets primarily to pay for various goods and services. However the law about “Digital Financial Assets” directly prohibits accepting digital currencies as payment:
“Thus, clearly, it won’t be possible to use tools offered by Mastercard to buy coffee, pay for repairs or services of a personal trainer - it can only be used for the purchase and sale of cryptocurrencies and, possibly, DFA. There will be no settlements - no taxes, the math here is extremely simple”.
The law about “Digital Financial Assets” also prohibits the dissemination of information about the offer and acceptance of digital currencies as payment.
“This means that Mastercard is actually prohibited to share information about the possibility of paying with cryptocurrencies for goods, works and services with Russian citizens,” Tretyak said.
https://lnkd.in/dFm-Cwp

Грядущее добавление Mastercard приема платежей в криптовалютах может оказаться под вопросом на территории РФ из-за особенностей законодательства, заявил ForkLog партнер ....

27/01/2021

News digest Wednesday:
- "Addressing the World Economic Forum on Wednesday for the first time in 12 years, Putin drew parallels with the 1930s when he said a failure to resolve international problems sparked World War II."
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-27/putin-warns-of-global-tensions-similar-to-1930s-in-davos-speech?srnd=premium-europe

-"The world now understands how seriously we should take pandemics. No one needs to be convinced that an infectious disease could kill millions of people or shut down the global economy. The pain of this past year will be seared into people’s thinking for a generation. ... We’re already seeing new pandemic preparedness strategies emerge, including from this year’s UK-led G7, and I expect to see more in the months and years to come." - say Bill and Melinda Gates in their annual letter.
https://www.gatesnotes.com/2021-Annual-Letter
- Join one of the largest online conferences, co-organised by DRC, dedicated to privacy and personal data protection tomorrow, on the 28th of January 2021 at 11:00 Moscow time.
https://privacyday.ru

Международная практическая конференция, посвященная приватности в сети и защите персональных данных.

26/01/2021

Monday news digest:
- "Marc Ginsberg sued the Alphabet Inc. unit Monday, asking a California court to require it to remove the Telegram Messenger app from the Google Play Store because it facilitates violence, extremism and anti-Semitism."
https://bloom.bg/3cdYaYX

- Apple is facing another class action lawsuit over iPhone 6 series planned obsolescence.
https://bit.ly/39hgjTS

- Russian human rights activists appealed to the Council of Europe because of the "repressive laws"
https://bit.ly/3iVeVd2

Российские правозащитники обратились в Совет Европы в связи с новыми серьезными угрозами российскому гражданскому обществу и основным правам и свободам в стране....

21/01/2021

Binance website unblocked in Russia.

Digital Rights Center, the law firm representing world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange Binance, has achieved cancellation of the court decision to block the exchange’s official website in Russia. The Regional Court of Arkhangelsk overturned the decision to block the site of Binance crypto exchange in Russia on the 20th of January due to withdrawal of the claim by the prosecutor.

The original decision to block the site was issued by the Mirninsky court of Arkhangelsk region in June of 2020 based on the request of the local prosecutor who deemed dissemination of information about bitcoin traded on the exchange as “illegal and prohibited for dissemination in Russia”. Binance learned about proceedings against the exchange only several months later from the Roskomnadzor notice saying that their site is included in the list of the domain names and URLs of websites containing information prohibited for dissemination in Russia.

Mikhail Bautin, the Digital Rights Center partner who represented Binance in courts, noted that failure to notify Binance about commencement of initial proceedings was a “gross procedural violation”. As a result, the legal team had to first restore the missed appeal deadline and only then file the appeal. Mr. Bautin specified that the prosecutor’s office “was basically forced to abandon the claim”.

18/12/2020

News: 'Suspected Russian hack is much worse than first feared. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency said in a summary Thursday that the threat “poses a grave risk to the federal government.”
It added that “state, local, tribal, and territorial governments as well as critical infrastructure entities and other private sector organizations” are also at risk.'
Read more: https://www.cnbc.com/2020/12/18/suspected-russian-hack-on-us-is-much-worse-than-first-feared.html

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency said the threat "poses a grave risk to the federal government."

18/12/2020

Media: 'A group of 10 Republican-led US states has opened a new front in US antitrust actions against Google, charging the internet group with abusing its monopoly over parts of the online advertising market and colluding with Facebook to shut out rival ad exchanges.'

https://www.ft.com/content/d2333141-ace0-469d-b75c-8b5fd0367993

Republican attorneys-general launch latest assault on Big Tech

17/12/2020

When: on the 25th of December at 18:30 (MOW time)
Where: online
Topic: Russian Privacy Awards. Winners awards and summarise the results of year.
Organised by: RPPA, ,
Language: Russian
Price: free of charge
Link:

17/12/2020

Our comment: On the 14th of December an investigation of the proposed poisoning of Alexey Navalny by a group of FSB officers has been published. According to it the officers followed Alexey in every his trip across Russia for a couple of years.
This investigation has lead to discussions about the possibility to get the data about the use of phones and plane travels without the involvement of Secret Service.
“The entire investigation is based on the data they bought at the black market, to collect the information all holes and vulnerabilities of the state information systems were used, - says Sarkis Darbinyan, partner of Digital Rights Center. - In terms of legislation, they could breach the privacy and get an unauthorised access to the protected systems. It is possible that the citizens mentioned in the investigation will file a civil suit against Navalny, but judicial practice shows that the plaintiffs will not be able to receive large payments - a maximum of 10-20 thousand rubles.” (~ 137 - 274 USD)
Read more: https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/4616645

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