Ministry of Communications will explain the work of the law on personal data
On the website of the Ministry of Communications and Mass Media, in the near future, a section should appear with an explanation of the provisions of Federal Law No. 242 “On Personal Data”. The law comes into force on September 1, 2015 . In addition to clarification, a new feedback form will be posted in the new section, which allows anyone to send a question according to the law, RBC writes . The Ministry of Communications on the website will also add requirements for companies that process Russian personal information.
Some explanations are available now, in the form of a separate document received by some media. So, if a company stores personal data of citizens of the Russian Federation in a Russian database, a copy of this database can be used abroad, Vedomosti reports. If an organization complies with the rules for working with personal data collected in the primary database, then this information can be transferred abroad as a secondary database for use as a backup.
The lawyer of the Russian Association of Electronic Communications (RAEC) Maxim Buyanov is also trying to clarify the situation. According to him, the amendments to the law do not oblige companies to transfer and process personal data of Russians only in the territory of the Russian Federation. In fact, cross-border database transfer is not prohibited. But to use this opportunity, you need to make sure that in the state where the database is transferred, personal data are reliably protected, and the country has signed the Council of Europe's personal data protection convention (for example, the United States and China have not signed it). Various operations with a foreign database can be carried out only after carrying out similar operations from a Russian database.
Full transfer of personal data of Russian citizens inside the country is technically impossible due to the globality of services. According to the Internet ombudsman Dmitry Marinichev, the complete localization of data can be compared with the ban on doing business in the Russian Federation.
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Another expert, marketing director of information security systems manufacturer Solar Security, Valentin Krokhin, believes that the scheme using two databases of Russian users, inside the Russian Federation and abroad, allows maintaining the mechanisms of companies with the Russian representation.
Some explanations are available now, in the form of a separate document received by some media. So, if a company stores personal data of citizens of the Russian Federation in a Russian database, a copy of this database can be used abroad, Vedomosti reports. If an organization complies with the rules for working with personal data collected in the primary database, then this information can be transferred abroad as a secondary database for use as a backup.
The lawyer of the Russian Association of Electronic Communications (RAEC) Maxim Buyanov is also trying to clarify the situation. According to him, the amendments to the law do not oblige companies to transfer and process personal data of Russians only in the territory of the Russian Federation. In fact, cross-border database transfer is not prohibited. But to use this opportunity, you need to make sure that in the state where the database is transferred, personal data are reliably protected, and the country has signed the Council of Europe's personal data protection convention (for example, the United States and China have not signed it). Various operations with a foreign database can be carried out only after carrying out similar operations from a Russian database.
Full transfer of personal data of Russian citizens inside the country is technically impossible due to the globality of services. According to the Internet ombudsman Dmitry Marinichev, the complete localization of data can be compared with the ban on doing business in the Russian Federation.
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Another expert, marketing director of information security systems manufacturer Solar Security, Valentin Krokhin, believes that the scheme using two databases of Russian users, inside the Russian Federation and abroad, allows maintaining the mechanisms of companies with the Russian representation.
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