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Russian Federation
1. Almost every single country in the world operates a secretive arm of government
consisting of intelligent agencies of varying degree of organization, staffing,
sophistication and impact on world affairs. One of the most important country is
RUSSIAN FEDERATION with its intelligence agency namely, Foreign Intelligence
Service-SVR. Russian federation is seems to be one of the most focused country because
of its power and role in the UNITED NATIONS.
Russian Federation is always being concerned about its technology and surveillance
program going in its country as well as around the globe and some of the surveillance
technologies which Russian Federation uses are-
Voice Recognition;
Face Spotting;
Data Grabbing;
Mobile Phone Interception;
Bus Tracking.
In 2005, Russia ratified the 1981 Council of Europe Convention for the Protection of
Individuals with regard to Automatic Processing of Personal Data (the 1981 Convention).
Russia adopted its Federal Law on Personal Data, which is a primary source of legislation
in the sphere of data protection and in many respects is similar to the EU data privacy
legislation, in 2006. With the Federal Law on Personal Data having only an 11-year history,
Russian data privacy regulation is still quite young.
Personal data has not been a primary interest of the government, business and media, but just an
accompaniment to some larger topics. This situation was compounded by the fines for non-
compliance with the personal data rules having always been very insignificant.
The situation greatly changed in 2014, when Russia adopted personal data localization rules,
requiring all operators that collect and process the personal data of Russian citizens to use
databases located in Russia. New requirements applying to the personal data of all Russian
citizens, irrespective of their legal relations with the personal data operators, immediately
received a very negative response from the business community. Although the new rules have
not banned the cross-border transfer of personal data, many foreign businesses believe that the
requirement for primary data processing via Russian databases is excessive.
The new rules also introduced the option to block non-compliant websites on the Russian
territory. The supervising authorities have also become significantly more proactive and have
proceeded with numerous audits of major Russian companies and local branches of major
multinational companies.
Russia is also looking for solutions to apply in the future to protect privacy in a more
critical way and at the same time those solutions which could also improve the business
with foreign companies without violating the privacy rights.
3. Russian Federation thinks that the following solutions/suggestions can be the best way to
solve the problem: