The bill on fines for anonymizers adopted in first reading

Today, the State Duma adopted in the first reading a bill on administrative fines for violating the law on anonymizers. Amendments to the Administrative Code and the introduction of fines - a planned annex to the law, adopted at the end of the spring session of the State Duma and signed by V. Putin on July 30 . It prohibits the use in Russia of means to circumvent locks to access prohibited sites, the so-called anonymizers.

The amendments to the Administrative Code provide for fines for search engines for issuing, at the request of users, links to prohibited information resources, as well as fines for hiding information about the owner of the anonymizer. Anonymizers can be understood as Tor, VPN, and any other services that allow you to bypass locks. A few days ago, Roskomnadzor created a department to block anonymizers and VPN services .

For violation of the law for citizens, an administrative fine of 5,000 rubles is provided, for officials - 50,000 rubles, for legal entities - from 500 thousand to 700 thousand rubles. Similar penalties for search engines are provided for issuing links to blocked sites entered in the Roskomnadzor registry.

On July 21, 2017, the State Duma adopted in first reading a draft federal law “On Amendments to the Federal Law“ On Information, Information Technologies and Information Protection ”” ( pdf ).
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According to the text of the law, Roskomnadzor will maintain the federal state information system (FGIS) - a black list of prohibited resources. Based on the appeal of the law enforcement agencies, the department will determine the provider that allows anonymizer, a Tor node, a VPN service, etc. to be placed on the Internet. Such a provider will be sent an electronic notification of the need to provide data to identify the owner of the anonymizer. Then Roskomnadzor will send to the anonymizer the requirement of the need to connect to FGIS, and the resource must do it in 30 days. At the request of the department, Internet search engines operating in the Russian Federation are also obliged to connect to FGIS.

After entering the FGIS, the anonymizer is obliged within three days to “ensure compliance with the prohibition to provide the opportunity to use programs and other means on the territory of the Russian Federation to gain access to prohibited sites.

If the owners do not provide information to Roskomnadzor to identify them, or deliberately provide false information, a penalty of 10–30 thousand rubles is provided. for citizens, 50–300 thousand - for legal entities. For repeated violation during the year - a fine of 30-50 thousand rubles. for citizens, 300–500 thousand rubles — for legal entities or administrative suspension of activities for up to 30 days.

These standards and fines do not apply to operators of state information systems, state bodies and local governments, as well as “cases of use of software and hardware access to information resources, access to which is restricted,” provided that the range of users is predetermined by their owners and use "is carried out for technological purposes of ensuring the activities of the person carrying out the use." That is, a personal or corporate VPN remains legal.

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