Human rights watch says institution needed to control Google

MOSCOW, Dec 5 (PRIME) -- Valery Fadeyev, head of the Russian presidential Council for the Civil Society and Human Rights, late on Monday suggested creating an institution to control Google and other companies for information security of the users.

“We should organize international control over the activities of IT giants, including Google, algorithms and criteria should be open, discussed and approved by international institutions,” Fadeyev said at a meeting of President Vladimir Putin with the council members.

“We should first establish the institution, which is not an easy task, we will see serious resistance – these companies are private, you cannot interfere in the work of private companies. This is wrong – the firms are private, but the Internet is a common benefit.”

He compared the Internet with civil aviation, when many private companies follow the international rules because safety is important.

Oleg Matveichev, deputy head of the information policy committee at the parliament’s lower house, told PRIME that the communications service has technical ability to block Google in the country and there is no need in a separate institution.

“The question is not to create an institution or an entity, which can block Google, we have it. The communications service has the technical ability to mute Google, YouTube…We do not need to make something new, but Rutube promised to create an alternative to YouTube a year ago and failed to fulfil its promise,” Matveichev said.

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