Website owners were required to store data on geolocation and user payments

The Russian government has expanded the list of data that owners of Internet sites and services included in the register of organizers of information dissemination are required to store and provide to law enforcement agencies. The user’s geolocation and means of payment have been added to the list. This follows from resolutions government, published on the legal information portal.

According to the document, expanding the list of data is necessary to combat illegal activities on the Internet. Draft of this resolution developed FSB in the fall of 2023.

A means of payment is understood as “a means and/or method that allows the user to draw up, certify or transmit orders for the purpose of transferring funds within the framework of the applicable forms of payment.”

Since 2018, organizers of the dissemination of information under the “Yarovaya Law” must store correspondence, audio and video messages of users for six months, and also provide them at the request of intelligence services.

Read more about what the government’s decision means in the Kommersant article. “Payments in the interests of the investigation”.

Evgeny Belousov