Total censorship on the Internet will begin to operate before the end of the year
MOSCOW, October 24. In early December, Roskomnadzor begins round-the-clock monitoring of network media using a special software and hardware complex. For compliance with Russian laws, not only texts will be checked, but also photos, audio and video - both editorial and posted by users.
According to the tender documentation, the PAC should monitor all the content (articles, comments, multimedia) of sites registered as mass media for the presence of words, expressions and other tags from a list specified by officials. The dictionary of expressions and keywords, according to the terms of reference, should be updated up to 5 million entries. Even though the details of the system are not entirely obvious, experts unanimously assess the cost of work declared by Data Center as 4.6 million rubles as underestimated, taking into account the tasks outlined.
At the same time, Kommersant itself refused to tell about the project plans. In Roskomnadzor, too, they were not particularly talkative, they only confirmed that the control system would indeed work in early December.
Media do not consider themselves the goal of the project. Similar systems existed earlier - at the service of commercial companies, but the open interest of government agencies in such monitoring was shown for the first time. And it is unlikely that these structures will be interested only in the media. “Today, almost all control and security agencies including the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the FSB consider such decisions for themselves,” says Irina Borogan, deputy chief editor of the Agentura.Ru website. And of course, not all such systems are acquired through the official public procurement procedure. An open monitoring system is just the tip of the iceberg: sometimes the functions of even control systems known to the public are much wider than declared.
In Russia, a long-running SORM - System of operational-search measures. “Since the 1990s, all telephony operators must install SORM-1 equipment for the unhindered collection and analysis of information from telephone networks, including mobile,” says Arkady Prokudin, head of the IT security department of IT Co., “And since the beginning of 2000- x each Internet provider is obliged to install SORM-2 equipment for unhindered access of special services to the transmitted information. "
The SORM-3 project already exists and is a development that allows you to track which site a person visited, downloaded, called, sent an SMS. However, no one can yet name the specific dates for the implementation of SORM-3.
As the publication predicts, it is possible that the main result of total surveillance will not be repression, but an intrusive service when government databases get into commercial structures.
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