Police will be able to search for missing children using geolocation data

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15:25 / 24 July, 2019
Police will be able to search for missing children using geolocation data

Tags: State Duma , geolocation , bill , mobile devices

The law will help search for missing children by identifying their possible location based on the mobile device they use.

State Duma deputies on Wednesday, July 24, accepted amendments to the Federal Law "On Operational Investigation Activities", which will simplify the search for missing children through the use of geolocation data from mobile devices. The bill was developed by Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Irina Yarova.

In the event of a child's loss, his parents will be able to apply to law enforcement agencies with a written statement, and they must begin searches within 24 hours, including with the ability to access the geolocation data of the child's mobile devices. In this case, "it is allowed to obtain information about the connections of the subscriber device in the minor's possession with other subscribers, other equipment, as well as the location of this device by removing information from technical communication channels with the obligatory notification of the court (judge)" within 24 hours.

Law enforcers will need to receive a court decision or stop conducting an operational search action within 48 hours from the start of the search.

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[Матушкин Андрей Николаевич]

The law will help search for missing children by determining their possible location using their mobile device.

Deputies of the State Duma on Wednesday, July 24, have accepted

amendments to the Federal Law “On operational-search activity”, which will simplify the search for missing children through the use of geolocation data of mobile devices. The bill was developed by Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Irina Yarovoy.

In the event of a child’s loss, his parents will be able to apply to the law enforcement authorities with a written statement, and they must start the search within 24 hours, including with the opportunity to access the geolocation data of the child’s mobile devices. In this case, “it is allowed to receive information about the connections of the subscriber’s device, located with the minor, with other subscribers, other equipment, as well as the location of this device by taking information from technical communication channels with the obligatory notification of the court (judge)” during the day.

Militiamen will need to get a court decision within 48 hours from the moment the search begins, or stop the operational-search measures.

Thanks for the interesting article!

 

[Детектив-Молдова]

Better later than never!
Good search tool.

 

[НСК-СБ]

The police will be able to quickly receive geolocation data of missing people​

But this will hardly help the quick finding of the lost, the search engines say.

Law enforcement officers will be able to quickly receive data on the whereabouts of missing citizens without court approval

The State Duma on June 8 in the second reading adopted amendments to Art. 8 of the Law "On Operational Investigative Activities", which will allow law enforcement officers to obtain from operators data on the geolocation of missing people and their calls without a court decision.

This can be done on the basis of a "motivated decision of one of the leaders of the body" carrying out operational-search activities. On the territory of Russia, according to Art. 13 of the same law, such activities can be carried out by units of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, FSB, FSO, SVR, FSIN, etc., but the police are usually engaged in the search for missing people. Within 48 hours from the beginning of the search work, the body carrying it out will still be required to obtain a court permission to obtain data on the whereabouts of a person and his last calls, follows from the draft law, taking into account the new amendments.

The bill was submitted to the State Duma in 2018 pursuant to the instructions of President Vladimir Putin. Among the authors of the amendments are the chairman of the Federation Council Valentina Matvienko, her first deputy Andrei Turchak, and vice-speaker of the State Duma Pyotr Tolstoy. According to the explanatory note to the bill, the first hours are very important when searching for a missing person, while about 90% of those who disappeared at the time of their disappearance have a mobile phone with them, which often remains switched on for the first 2-3 days after the start of the search. According to the search movement "LisaAlert", in 2020, almost 1,000 people died with their mobile phones turned on, the total number of such deaths is estimated at 5,500 people.

The chairman of LizaAlert, Grigory Sergeev, told Vedomosti that, as adopted, the amendments do not clarify the procedure for obtaining information by the police. The ability to accurately establish the location based on the data received is also not spelled out. All these proposals, clearly regulating the work on clarifying geodata, were in the previous versions of the amendments, but the final version turned out to be "cut down". He noted that in this form, the bill will very little help to facilitate the search for people and save more lives. Therefore, says Sergeev, he will urge the president not to sign this bill.

The co-author of the bill, MP Tatyana Kasayeva, believes that the bill will work and can really help in the search. She noted that the comments of the experts had been taken into account by the second reading. Aleksandr Khinshtein also considers the bill to be workable; in his Telegram channel, he pointed out that the new rules would allow “to immediately start searching for the missing person,” and the police can quickly share data with search engines.
Stanislav Seleznev, a lawyer for the Agora International Group, notes that, although the amendments provide for judicial control ex post facto, the courts almost always approve any request for an invasion of privacy. Thus, he says, the security officials will have the opportunity to bypass the secret of communication and, outside the framework of the initiated criminal case, interfere with the secrets of private life.

According to private detective Sergei Drykin, there is no reason to expect data leakage abuse from the security forces after the adoption of this law. For this, it is much easier for attackers to look for weaknesses in the operators themselves, he says.
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[Матушкин Андрей Николаевич]

Полиция сможет оперативно получать данные геолокации пропавших людей​

Но быстрому нахождению потерявшихся это слабо поможет, считают поисковики

Правоохранители смогут оперативно получать данные о местонахождении пропавших граждан без санкции суда

Давно пора!
Спасибо за актуальный материал.

 

[Alexander Konovalenko.]

The police will be able to quickly receive geolocation data of missing people​

But this will hardly help the quick finding of the lost, the search engines say.

Law enforcement officers will be able to quickly receive data on the whereabouts of missing citizens without court approval

The State Duma on June 8 in the second reading adopted amendments to Art. 8 of the Law "On Operational Investigative Activities", which will allow law enforcement officers to obtain from operators data on the geolocation of missing people and their calls without a court decision.

This can be done on the basis of a "motivated decision of one of the leaders of the body" carrying out operational-search activities. On the territory of Russia, according to Art. 13 of the same law, such activities can be carried out by units of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, FSB, FSO, SVR, FSIN, etc., but the police are usually engaged in the search for missing people. Within 48 hours from the beginning of the search work, the body carrying it out will still be required to obtain a court permission to obtain data on the whereabouts of a person and his last calls, follows from the draft law, taking into account the new amendments.

The bill was submitted to the State Duma in 2018 pursuant to the instructions of President Vladimir Putin. Among the authors of the amendments are the chairman of the Federation Council Valentina Matvienko, her first deputy Andrei Turchak, and vice-speaker of the State Duma Pyotr Tolstoy. According to the explanatory note to the bill, the first hours are very important when searching for a missing person, while about 90% of those who disappeared at the time of their disappearance have a mobile phone with them, which often remains switched on for the first 2-3 days after the start of the search. According to the search movement "LisaAlert", in 2020, almost 1,000 people died with their mobile phones turned on, the total number of such deaths is estimated at 5,500 people.

The chairman of LizaAlert, Grigory Sergeev, told Vedomosti that, as adopted, the amendments do not clarify the procedure for obtaining information by the police. The ability to accurately establish the location based on the data received is also not spelled out. All these proposals, clearly regulating the work on clarifying geodata, were in the previous versions of the amendments, but the final version turned out to be "cut down". He noted that in this form, the bill will very little help to facilitate the search for people and save more lives. Therefore, says Sergeev, he will urge the president not to sign this bill.

The co-author of the bill, MP Tatyana Kasayeva, believes that the bill will work and can really help in the search. She noted that the comments of the experts had been taken into account by the second reading. Aleksandr Khinshtein also considers the bill to be workable; in his Telegram channel, he pointed out that the new rules would allow “to immediately start searching for the missing person,” and the police can quickly share data with search engines.
Stanislav Seleznev, a lawyer for the Agora International Group, notes that, although the amendments provide for judicial control ex post facto, the courts almost always approve any request for an invasion of privacy. Thus, he says, the security officials will have the opportunity to bypass the secret of communication and, outside the framework of the initiated criminal case, interfere with the secrets of private life.

According to private detective Sergei Drykin, there is no reason to expect data leakage abuse from the security forces after the adoption of this law. For this, it is much easier for attackers to look for weaknesses in the operators themselves, he says.

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Thanks for the information. Just according to my profile.

 

[Частный детектив. Армения. Ереван.]

Well done! Nice to see them progress! Thank you for the article)

 

[OldWhiteCat]

That's what I don't understand. Where is there to admire? The special services had access to the logs of cell phones within the framework of SORM from the very beginning. And according to them, it is easy to determine the BS to which there was a connection ... What are the difficulties?

 

[Матушкин Андрей Николаевич]

That's what I don't understand. Where is there to admire? The special services had access to the logs of cell phones within the framework of SORM from the very beginning. And according to them, it is easy to determine the BS to which there was a connection ... What are the difficulties?

And what does the special have to do with it. services and police?

 

[OldWhiteCat]

There has always been access to SORM about the police as well. And not everything is by court decision - just the conversations themselves.
"For direct wiretapping, an official court decision is required (more than one hundred thousand such permits are issued a year), but for obtaining other information (for example, the facts of making calls) no court sanction is required. In addition, the FSB or the Ministry of Internal Affairs must only receive a warrant. but not to show it to the telecom operator, which is prohibited from demanding this document in the absence of access to state secrets on its part "