Protection of personal data on the Internet

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Russian citizens, had the imprudence to specify your mobile phone or email address in the box of personal data when filling in various forms, cards and questionnaires on the Internet, are often faced with spam clogging email.

It is hoped that the new administration of the legislation of the Russian Federation to improve the situation with access to personal data that lately and then subjected to an attack or hacking.

team working on the development of information technology in September this year, will present to the State Duma for consideration of several amendments to the existing law on the protection of information in the field of Communications, Information Technology and Mass Communications.

head of the working group Gattarov Ruslan says that in the world of social networks Russian citizens are not immune from public dissemination or distortion of information about themselves.Mr. Gattarov repeatedly tried to catch Google in evading tax payments, as well as suspects network Facebook in contradiction with the actual legislation, as in the archive any social network messages are deleted.Of course, the relevance of this topic is related to the notorious case of the CIA officer Edward Snowden, who has declassified information about how US intelligence agencies obtained information about users Google, Facebook, Twitter and Microsoft.

Definitely, the world of online crimes committed in virtual reality, growing and expanding every day.Hackers invent new means of hacking private offices and users of financial systems.The company, which provides legal services to major Internet providers, claim that pursuing the goal is to keep the Internet free space, you need to create a working system of detection, prevention and removal of information, access to which is limited by the current legislation.A year active Registry of banned sites, which, according to lawyers, can clearly see people their goal - to rid the minors from information that may be traumatic and is prohibited by law.

Minister of Communications and Mass Communications Minister Nikolai Nikiforov said that "everything that happens on the Internet, can not be considered some kind of confidential information - not from a legal and technical point of view, because it passes through a variety of channels, servers.Someone, anyway, can have access to it. "On this basis, he argues that modern society has to think about what the Internet - services it uses.After all, according to reports from research groups Group-IB about fifty percent of the sites with the domains of the second level in the areas of RU and Russia engaged in the proliferation of malicious software.As explained by the lawyer - only the first half of 2013 in the Russian segment of the World Wide Web was discovered 896 sites threaten the security of the computer program.

information has serious power and may even be weapons, as evidenced by the use of cyber weapons - Stuxnet and Duqu, as well as the expansion of the zone of its use in the territory of Iran and the surrounding area in West Asia.Stepan Cheap, Senior Product Manager, "Kaspersky Lab", notes that now modified "Trojans" are already being used in the field of business, going beyond fiddling with home users.There are more malicious programs that are created to infect store corporate documents, as well as damage the program-coders.

Acronis research team concluded that the information loses its high degree of protection in those companies where employees use their own devices in the workplace.Only one-third of large companies prohibit their employees bring personal devices in the office.In addition, many companies are permitted to use cloud services for data transmission, but in practice more than eighty percent of organizations do not engage in training employees safe use of computers.

Roskomnadzor, as well as other government agencies involved in the implementation of the new amendments to the existing legislation: introducing new offenses are treated virtually all types of violations, and provides encouraging law-abiding companies.For example, if a certain company has received no complaints, the service puts it at the end of the list verification plan.Roskomnadzor expects to receive more offers on this, wanting to encourage the Russian society to the law-abiding, not only real, but also in the virtual world.