Not in the eyebrow, but in the "Eye of God"

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Roskomnadzor wants to ban search service through court​

Roskomnadzor has filed a lawsuit against the founder of one of the largest services in Russia for finding information about citizens, the Eye of God. The regulator saw in his work a violation of the right of Russians to privacy. Service representatives insist that it works within the framework of the law, and in case of blocking, they promise "alternative solutions." Roskomnadzor, lawyers say, expects to create a legal precedent that in the future will help block such services and prosecute their owners.

“Kommersant” found in the filing cabinet of the Tagansky District Court of Moscow that on June 7 Roskomnadzor filed a claim to Evgeny Antipov, the founder of the Eye of God Telegram bot (the Telegram channel associated with it has over 850 thousand subscribers). The bot allows the user of the messenger to receive information about almost any person upon request. The court will consider the claim on July 1.

According to the statement of claim (Kommersant has it), Roskomnadzor in the course of "monitoring the Internet" discovered a service that violates the rights of citizens "by accessing an indefinite circle of people to their personal data without their appropriate consent."

The department demands to recognize the activities of the "Eyes of God" illegal and violate the rights of citizens to privacy, personal and family secrets.

The statement says that the court's decision is the basis for including the "Eyes of God" in the register of violators of the rights of subjects of personal data. Roskomnadzor did not respond to Kommersant's request.

The representative of the "Eyes of God" Sergei Kalenik said that the lawyers of the service have already "partially familiarized themselves" with the claim and consider it unfounded: we understand what the complaint is. "

Mr. Kalenik added that even if the department manages to ban the operation of the site, they will offer alternative solutions "strictly within the framework of the requirements of state bodies."

Roskomnadzor has already sent a notification to the Telegram administration about the need to restrict the work of such bots ( see "Kommersant" from March 9 ). After that, the messenger began to block services, including "Archangel", Smart_SearchBot, mailsearch bot and "Eye of God" ( see "Kommersant" from March 13 ). But the latter made copies of his site and fully recovered in a week. At the same time, the administrators of the service said that they made its work legal.

In April, searches were carried out in Mr. Antipov's apartment, the "Network Freedoms" project reported, citing lawyer Fyodor Sirosh. After that, Evgeny Antipov said in an interview with BAZA that the service made it impossible to "break through" the employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the FSB, etc. The representative of Telegram did not provide comments.

Lawyers interviewed by Kommersant believe that Roskomnadzor is trying to create a judicial precedent. “It may be required for the subsequent blocking of such services in order to stop the development of the breakthrough market,” explains Elena Avakyan, counselor at the EPAM law office. She adds that the precedent can form the basis for both civil lawsuits against such services and criminal prosecution of their creators.

The “Eye of God” may try to refer to the fact that the circle of persons accessing data about citizens is limited to those who have passed authentication by phone number, said Alexander Savelyev, deputy chairman of the Commission on Legal Support of the Digital Economy of the Moscow Branch of the Russian Lawyers Association.
“Also, the administration of the bot can argue that the consent from citizens, whose data circulates in the service, should be received by users, and not by the site,” the expert clarifies.

But this position, Mr. Savelyev admits, is unlikely to find support from the court. If the court decides the case in favor of Roskomnadzor, then for illegal processing of personal data, the service faces a fine in the amount of 60 thousand to 100 thousand rubles. If a violation of privacy is found, he adds, the maximum penalty is up to five years in prison.

In the event of an appropriate court decision, the bot may be blocked by telecom operators, if Telegram does not start doing this, says Vadim Perevalov, a teacher at Moscow Digital School. If the administration of the messenger refuses to delete the information on the basis of a court decision, he warns, this may lead to the repeated blocking of Telegram itself.


Nikita Korolev

A source

 

[Kiril Harchevnikov]

What Roskomnadzor did not do. He forbade the telegram - Although they themselves made an official channel in the telegram itself. We wanted to ban Twitter - but it didn’t happen. And also the law against Navalny

 

[seventeam]

What Roskomnadzor did not do. He forbade the telegram - Although they themselves made an official channel in the telegram itself. We wanted to ban Twitter - but it didn’t happen. And also the law against Navalny

Agree. The latter is not worth talking about.

 

[Частный детектив. Армения. Ереван.]

Again Roskomnadzor hopes that Telegram would notice it)

 

[detectivehelp]

Normal service. I use it regularly. Worth your money

 

[Частный детектив. Армения. Ереван.]

Нормальный сервис. Пользуюсь регулярно. Своих денег стоит

Про что вы имеете ввиду?

 

[Детективное агентство Израиль.]

It seems to me, or instead of doing normal work, they do something that does not benefit either side at all

 

[Turdubaev Dastan]

It seems to me, or instead of doing normal work, they do something that does not benefit either side at all

I think so too. They have many incomprehensible actions

 

[poles1469]

Interesting and useful material!

 

[detectivehelp]

What do you mean?

This service is punching a person. Somehow I found a person's social networks from the photo. his contacts, cars, etc. are also making their way. The truth is not always up-to-date information, but it's worth it for 100 rubles per day