Mandatory transfer of personal data of users of foreign services to Russia is postponed

As you have probably heard, the law obliging the storage and processing of personal data of Russians in the country has already been adopted, now in the second reading it was approved to postpone its entry into force: from January 1, 2016 to January 1, 2015. However, this does not mean that after three month everything changes. The good news was brought by the Minister of Communications Nikolay Nikiforov: it turns out that the officials are simply not ready yet. Vedomosti quotes the minister:

This law implies a fairly broad regulatory legal framework. And within the framework of its departments, it is just to be determined what information under which circumstances in which systems should be specifically stored and processed, including in the territory of the Russian Federation.

- to put it simply, the adopted law will still require by-laws specifying all the details that the ministry will develop. And there are possible options. So, according to the minister, personal data posted, for example, on Twitter and Facebook services, can be considered "insensitive" for users. Such information, he said, can be stored abroad.
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Development of all regulations, according to experts, will take at least a year. Plus, the time for the preparation of technical capacities by companies that will have to comply with this law.

Despite the fact that this is basically good news in terms of privacy, the question arises about the economic and general sense of what is happening: the implementation of the law was stalled in the most unfavorable place for Russian Internet business. You probably know that a number of sites, including Habrahabr, have already obliged to store user data for six months. In the case of Habr, according to deniskin , this will require a million rubles for additional server capacity. It turns out that the domestic Internet business will pay an increase in costs, but at the same time, Russian hosting companies, already rubbing their hands in anticipation of data from Western services, will not receive them, Facebook and Twitter will not spend a penny, but the notorious security, for which everything seemed to be going around , turns a locked door in the middle of the open field - anonymous terrorists, drug dealers, etc. will continue to discuss evil plans in Facebook's personal messages and mockingly share tweets, knowing that domestic Themis cannot physically remove servers from them. The question arises: is there any point in what is happening at all?

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