The public WiFi operator will have to check documents))

[Гудимов Анатолий Геннадиевич]

WiFi access in Russia also limited freedom
Photo: D. Abramov / Vedomosti


Providing public access to the Internet through a WiFi access point, the provider must establish the identity of the client by checking his documents, it follows from the government decree No. 758 of July 31, 2014. It brings the rules for the provision of communication services in accordance with the anti-terrorism amendments to the law “On Information, information technologies and information protection ”, follows from the message of the Ministry of Communications.

The conditions are added to the rules for the provision of communication services for data transfer that a contract with a corporate client will require the operator to register the duty of the client at least once a quarter, send him a list of people using Internet access: last names, first names and patronymics, as well as place of residence and passport data. And in the points of collective access to the Internet (this universal communication service is provided, as a rule, in the offices of the Russian Post), access will be possible by passport, and the universal access operator will have to store information about this user for six months. Also, the service provider will need to identify the equipment with which the subscriber accesses the Internet.

Only the operator should identify the user of the WiFi access point, the private subscriber does not have such a duty, follows from the explanation of the Ministry of Communications. The operator will first have to send the user a request for his identification data. At the same time, he does not need to require a paper passport - the operator can identify the user by mobile phone number, for example, by sending a WiFi access code via sms, the Minister of Communications Nikolai Nikiforov tweeted. He also believes that a password from the State Services portal can be a convenient way of identification. “User identification (by credit card, cell number, etc.) when accessing public WiFi is a worldwide practice,” Nikiforov said on Twitter.

Using a mobile phone number for identification looks logical - you can set the subscriber’s passport data on it, an employee of one of the operators believes. But access to the Internet via public WiFi from a device that is not equipped with a SIM card (for example, from a tablet that does not support cellular communication), now, in fact, cannot be tracked, an employee of one of the industry organizations notes. Although the “trace” remains - each such device has a network address (MAC address), but in practice this address is easy to hide or replace, moreover, it identifies the device and not its user, he notes.

When providing WiFi access services, Rostelecom already uses various forms of remote identification - for example, a password is sent in SMS to the number indicated by the subscriber (you can use it to set user data), says Valery Kostarev, company representative. Rostelecom is awaiting approval by Roskomnadzor of the methodology for implementing identification requirements - the company's specialists will take part in the development and examination of by-laws, he adds.


Restaurants, parks, airports, etc., will have to store data on user devices and their activity for six months, provide this data to law enforcement officers, and also register their routers, ITAR-TASS agency quoted Maxim Ksenzov, deputy director of Roskomnadzor. But you don’t need to identify WiFi users in these places, the norm will concern only collective access points, he noted.

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If we formally follow the letter of the resolution, then it refers only to the points of collective access to the Internet, which are used in the provision of universal communication services, agrees the representative of the information technology department of Moscow City Hall Elena Novikova. Providing public WiFi services in public places, the Moscow government itself acts as the customer of the service and gives citizens guest access to it - an additional identification procedure is not necessary in this regard, she said. She promises not to change the rules for providing a WiFi service until further clarifications are received from the Ministry of Communications.

According to Anton Malginov, head of the Mail.ru Group legal service, the decision is now read so that all companies must maintain and transfer to the telecom operator lists of all their employees, as well as lists of all guest network users: “That is, for example, a hotel or restaurant with free WiFi, before giving a password to the network, must receive user data, including passport data, add it to the list and send information to the operator in the manner prescribed by the contract with the operator. ” If the logic of the government was different, then, apparently, additional clarifications will be needed. At the same time, legal entities from the end of 2005 are obliged to maintain a list of persons using corporate telephone communications, recalls Malginov, but in practice most companies are unlikely to do this.

There are questions to the resolution of the Russian Association of Electronic Communications, it follows from a message on its website. In particular, it remained unclear whether the decision applies only to operators or to any legal entities; no alternative methods for identifying users have been identified; it is unclear whether the rule on the transfer of user lists to providers is extended to service enterprises; and finally, how users’s personal data will be stored in accordance with the Law on Personal Data.

Roskomnadzor will hold consultations both with the developers of the resolution and with market participants, on the basis of which a methodology for monitoring its implementation will be developed, says Oleg Ivanov, deputy department head.

According to an employee of the central apparatus of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, work is currently underway on some technical system to verify the correctness of data by the ministry. Apparently, these data will be checked at specific requests of law enforcement agencies, he does not exclude.

Representatives of VimpelCom  (it owns the largest WiFi network in Moscow with approximately 14,000 access points) and MTS (through its очку daughter ’MGTS owns the company Taskom, which operates about 500 points) declined to comment. Representatives of restaurant chains interviewed by Vedomosti also found it difficult to comment on a government decree.

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[Виталий Жук]

Anatoly, thanks for the enlightenment in changing the law)

 

[Плотников Юрий Михайлович]

Thank!

 

[Андрей Захаров]

Thanks Anatoly) It turned out, as in most cases ... First they followed ... And then they thought ... And it was necessary on the contrary: lol: When adopting any normative acts, in principle, observe the sequence of actions

 

[Матушкин Андрей Николаевич]

Thank.
Everything is not very clear to the end.
But the direction of the vector is correct.