UPDATE: Com ministry suggest govt cut data storage period to month

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MOSCOW, Oct 17 (PRIME) -- Russia’s Communications and Mass Media Ministry is going to submit a draft ruling to the government to cut the period of storing users’ traffic by operators to one month from for up to six months, Minister Nikolai Nikiforov told reporters on Tuesday.

“The option we’re planning to present contains a suggestion of storage fir one month,” Nikiforov said, adding that the document had been elaborated jointly with the Federal Security Service.

If content is kept for a month, one-time expenses of operators will amount to several tens of billions of rubles instead of trillions of rubles planned now.

Nikiforov said that it is difficult to name any precise amount, because every operator has its own infrastructure and it will decide for itself. The ministry is worried about its influence on operators’ price policy, Nikiforov said. A final decision will be made by the government.

The data retention law will oblige connection operators and Internet companies to keep information on content of users’ talks and correspondence from July 1, 2018. The government is yet to decide on information types and the storage period.

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