The FSB considered the rate of compliance with the requirements of the “Yarovaya Law” by operators to be low

The pace of installation by Russian operators of equipment required as part of the implementation of the Yarovaya Law remains very low, said FSB spokesman Alexander Samoilov. transmits Interfax.

“Unfortunately, today the pace of implementation of the Yarovaya Law in terms of installing technical means of operational-search activities on their networks remains extremely low,” he said.

There are a significant number of operators on the market that violate legal requirements, Samoilov added, also pointing to the current moratorium on inspections of their activities. Operators, according to him, evade responsibility by concluding contracts without further implementation of the necessary equipment, abandoning existing licenses and obtaining new ones, changing legal entities, etc.

“To solve this problem, the FSB, together with the Ministry of Digital Development and Roskomnadzor, regularly takes measures to increase the responsibility of unscrupulous operators,” the FSB representative emphasized.

Samoilov also noted that from January 2024, turnover fines will be introduced for operators for violations related to the operator’s refusal to implement SORM (system of operational investigative measures). Now fines for the absence of SORM range from 300,000 to 500,000 rubles, and for repeated detection of violations – from 2 million to 6 million rubles.

As Vedomosti wrote, the new fines will have the greatest impact on small companies. The innovation could lead to the consolidation of small operators and a decrease in the revenue of medium-sized players, experts interviewed noted.

The “Yarovaya Law” (named after one of the co-authors, State Duma deputy from United Russia Irina Yarovaya) includes amendments to the law “On Countering Terrorism” and to the Criminal Code. In accordance with it, from October 1, 2018, operators are obliged to store all Internet traffic of users for six months, and the capacity of technical storage equipment increases annually by 15% for five years from the date of their commissioning.

At the same time, operators have repeatedly warned that compliance with the provisions of the law to increase storage capacity requires significant costs. In this regard, the Ministry of Digital Development twice gave operators a one-year deferment to comply with the requirement: in 2020 due to the pandemic and in the summer of 2022.