Roskomnadzor included “Yandex. Drive” and “Yandex. Gas stations” on the “watch list”

Roskomnadzor has included two more Yandex services in the Register of Information Dissemination Organizers: “Yandex.Drive” and “Yandex.Zapravky”. Now these services will be obliged to save user data and information about their actions, and to transfer them to law enforcement authorities at their request. The “Roskomsvoboda” project drew attention to the replenishment of the register.

Previously, 10 Yandex services were included in the ORA register: Yandex.Mail, Yandex.Disk, Yandex.Maps, Yandex.Zen, Market, Beru, Avto.ru, “Real Estate”, “Yandex.Taksy” and “Yandex.Eda”.

The ORI register was created in 2014 as part of the implementation of the law “On Information Protection”. Internet resources “intended for receiving, transmitting, delivering and (or) processing electronic messages of Internet users” are included in it. These are social networks, messengers, file sharers, dating sites and many others. Law enforcement agencies — the Ministry of Internal Affairs or the FSB — are required to enter a particular site or service into the register, while Roskomnadzor is only an executor.

The services included in the ORI registry are obliged to save all personal data, messages and appeals of their users and transfer them to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the FSB and other law enforcement agencies at their request. The state declares that this is necessary to fight crime and terrorism.

• Now the register of ORA consists of about 400 Internet resources. In addition to the services of “Yandex”, they include the social network “Vkontakte”, Mail.Ru, Liveinternet.ru, “Rambler”, “Sberbank. Online”, “Tinkoff Bank”, the portal “Pykabu”, dating sites Mamba and Wanda, and others .
• Roskomnadzor has blocked some resources for refusing to fulfill the requirements, for example, the Smartmail and Mailbox postal services. In 2018, Roskomnadzor blocked the popular Telegram messenger due to the refusal to provide the FSB with encryption keys for users’ correspondence. This caused a wave of indignation among users, but Telegram itself continued to work mostly stably in Russia. In 2020, Roskomnadzor canceled ego blocking.