Total surveillance and control: the bill on the digital profile of Russians

2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55

The draft law on the digital profile developed by the Ministry of Digital Industry and the Central Bank will ensure total surveillance and "leaking" of Russians' data to third parties.

After the recent PR campaign of a single electronic dossier for each citizen of Russia called "digital profile", which will be available to third parties, the cyber lobbyists intend to consolidate their success with a corresponding bill. So far, the bill "On Amendments to Certain Legislative Acts (regarding the clarification of identification and authentication procedures)" has not been officially submitted to the Duma, but has already appeared on the website of the Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications "for discussion". As we promised, we will analyze the document introducing unprecedented amendments to 149-ФЗ "On information …", 152-ФЗ "On personal data …" and 126-ФЗ "On communication …", after which our personal data de jure cease to be ours. For ease of analysis, we will simply highlight the key paragraphs of the bill and accompany them with a commentary.

Those. the identifier will be the person's lifetime personal number assigned from birth. The main candidate for this role is SNILS, which, after the recently adopted anti-constitutional bill, just received the function of an "identifier in the personalized accounting system." By the way, the Pension Fund on April 2 explained that the usual green pension certificates have now been canceled, and the Russians will henceforth be “registered persons”. According to the personal identifier SNILS, accordingly, all state services will now be provided, that is, all interaction between the citizen and the state will be based on this number. What in this case will be handed over to the biological object as confirmation of its registration in a single database of “individual registration” is not specified. But it seems that we should know our serial numbers, so they will still provide us with some kind of printout with the assigned number.

Everything is said here very clearly and clearly - the identifier belongs to, and therefore, is assigned to the person, and not to some information about the person. Welcome to electronic Auschwitz, which is reborn before our very eyes despite the indefinite condemnation of the personal numbering of people at the Nuremberg Tribunal!

Further, the document introduces the legal status of the digital profile of a citizen, which is "A set of information about citizens and legal entities contained in the information systems of state bodies and organizations exercising certain public powers in accordance with federal laws, as well as in a unified system of identification and authentication."

The infrastructure of the digital profile is becoming the Unified System of Identification and Authentication - ESIA (as it was originally intended, only citizens forgot to tell about it) and all citizens who have a confirmed account on the portal of public services, as well as all those who passed biometrics in the Unified Biometric System, automatically enter it. --EBS. But with the totality of information that falls into the "digital profile", everything is much more interesting. There will be accumulated all information about a person from government agencies (everything is clear with this), as well as from organizations exercising public powers. The catch is that this concept can be summed up

This distinction is often lacking in legislation and acts of the Constitutional Court. In a broad sense, organizations with an element of publicity include all credit organizations, state corporations, military units, federal funds for supporting scientific and scientific and technical activities (Rusnano, Skolkovo, etc.), the Deposit Insurance Agency, the Pension Fund of the Russian Federation, the FSS, the MHIF, other state funds and, of course, the Central Bank. Thus, with a high degree of probability, information about a citizen from all these structures will also merge into a digital profile, and may be available to these structures.

Exchange of personal data, i.e. private, confidential information about citizens and legal entities between numerous participants in the digital profile infrastructure - this is its main purpose. It is also interesting, with the help of the infrastructure, it is provided:

It turns out that at the request of the authorities, any organizations with an element of publicity in their activities, as well as other organizations (in fact - any private structure) can receive a full set of personal information about a person from his CPU. It is in their interests that the exchange of personal data is being established within the framework of the digital profile infrastructure.

In the near future, it is planned to provide all public services to citizens exclusively in digital form through their digital profiles. Actually, this system will be supplied with data from the ESIA (website of public services) and the EBS, they were originally created for this task.

According to the explanations of the Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications of February 2017, 152-FZ "On personal data" lists cases when the processing of PD does not require the consent of the subject of PD (Art. 6, paragraphs 2-11). In particular, this is not required when exercising the powers of federal executive bodies, bodies of state extra-budgetary funds, executive bodies of state power of constituent entities of the Russian Federation, local governments and functions of organizations (i.e. MFC) involved in the provision of state and municipal services, respectively, /../ including registration of the subject of personal data on a single portal of state and municipal services and (or) regional portals of state and municipal services.

As you can see, the law on personal data contains a very tricky loophole. On the one hand, many citizens used their legal right not to sign any consent when visiting the MFC, on the other hand, their PD could be used without demand to register with the Unified Information System, and now all of them will receive a digital profile. Registration in the ESIA and the opening of a digital profile of a citizen, it turns out, does not depend on our will at all. At least give consent, at least do not give - in the process of communicating with government agencies you are in no way protected from the possibility of opening a single digital dossier on you, which will then be available to usurers and other "third parties". How it was possible to make the registration of a citizen on the portal of public services independent of his consent is a separate question, and here there is a planned legal "bookmark" with a far-reaching calculation (the corresponding amendments to the law were adopted back in 2013).

Any legally significant interaction of a person with authorities, banks, insurance companies, state corporations, state funds will be immediately reflected in his updated digital profile - automatically, of course, without any consent. At the same time, according to the current legislation, surveillance of the citizens of the Russian Federation is possible only after the appropriate court sanction. An exception is the recently adopted law allowing law enforcement officers to obtain data on the location of the cell phone of missing citizens without a court decision. Senators Matvienko, Bokova and Klishas, who are notorious to us for a number of other anti-popular initiatives, especially stood up for this law. In addition, the cyber-lobbyists at the Gaidar Forum were very happy about its adoption, which cannot but suggest abuses in this area. Nevertheless, in the form of a digital profile, the existence of which the citizen himself - his owner, may not know about, we have a tool to spy on private life in real time. Moreover, the data obtained during the surveillance will be available to a wide range of people. How does this correspond to the Constitution of the Russian Federation, the presumption of innocence and real protection of human rights? No way.

And this point once again confirms the observation made above. The Federal Law "On Public Services" does not imply the consent of the citizen to the processing of PD when providing him with public services, therefore, interagency interaction with the exchange of all our PD in the digital profile will take place without our knowledge. And then it will be very difficult to prove that it was not carried out in order to provide us with state services.

Well, of course, how the owners of digital profiles could not prescribe the possibility of access to personal data of citizens for money for any third parties! After all, it is necessary to profit from "human capital". At the same time, the deputy chairman of the Central Bank, Skorobogatova, refers to the fact that a citizen will have the opportunity to see which private traders have requested information from his central office and even refuse to provide them with PD, but there is also a great deceit hidden here. How and to whom will commercial structures make such inquiries in general, if they do not know anything about the people whose digital profiles are stored in a single database, do not know who exactly is their “target group”? Obviously, the state will sell them our personal data for money. A couple of years ago, it was difficult to imagine such a thing, but this is a direct withdrawal of the state from the “market” and a refusal to ensure our information security. If we recall the words of the ex-vice-premier and ex-head of the Presidential Administration Sergei Ivanov, who now heads the board of directors of Rostelecom - the operator of ESIA and EBS: “People are our new oil,” everything falls into place.

Next, the procedure for identifying a person (as well as legal entities, if anyone has forgotten - a digital profile will be created for each company) is prescribed within the framework of the CPU system.

A person's identifier (it is also a personal number of SNILS) is equated in legal status with an identity card and becomes his electronic ID in the framework of interaction with the state. Again, all your "digital footprint" within the CPU can be collected automatically without your consent and knowledge - this bill makes it possible. Well, and SNILS, according to the law recently signed by the President, the citizen will be obliged to get out of the cradle - at the very first provision of state services to him. Most likely, the registry office will deal with this immediately after the registration of a person's birth - in a "proactive mode", as they fashionably say.

There is some ominous understatement here. It is clear that the Government approves the procedure for creating an electronic identity card for a Russian, which they threaten to issue us (again, without asking the opinion of citizens) after 2023. However, while the information included in it, and the procedure for use, and the procedure for their accounting remain in the fog. For electronic passports, it is planned to create a separate state. An information system (probably integrated with a digital profile), but so far nothing is known about it either. The wording “permissible forms of identity card” is especially annoying. Here it is already very close to the shape of a microchip or some kind of barcode or laser mark. Well, why not - after all, the identifier number will be present there, and what else do they need to identify biological objects?

Perhaps we will dwell on this for now. You yourself can estimate the scale of interference by the authorities, moneylenders and other private companies in the personal life of each of us. It is surprising that the majority of citizens seem to be asleep, not paying due attention to the danger and anti-constitutional nature of the "reforms" carried out by the liberal-globalists. In a short time, without any opposition from law enforcement agencies, conditions are created for the control and management of each citizen, all information about which the state personally hands over in the name of profit for banksters, insurers and unidentified "third parties" - participants in the financial market, as Ms. Skorobogatova likes to say …

Another example of total surveillance of citizens' personal lives and zero PD security is the control of their purchases through online cash registers. On the eve of the operator of fiscal data "First OFD" sent out a letter to clients, which says that cash registers were reconfigured to transfer data to third parties. At the same time, these companies can be used not in the interests of consumers, but for the analysis of consumer preferences and competitive intelligence. According to an employee of the service center, in a number of cases the checkout settings were changed and the information was sent "to the side, in an unknown direction." It is not difficult to understand what scale of leaks await us when implementing a digital profile project, especially given the statements of the Deputy Minister of Digital Development that it will be possible to manage it through a regular mobile application - i.e. all the most important information about a person's life will be transmitted over open Wi-Fi and mobile Internet channels.

It would seem a no brainer that our data should belong only to us, and not to the state represented by officials (sometimes very prone to theft and corruption), and even less so to bankers, oligarchs and all kinds of funds. And only we ourselves, the owners of this data, should have the right to decide how to dispose of them - not giving a damn about any "proactive regimes" and "services that do not require our consent." After losing control over all this information, we risk losing control over our own lives. It is the people - the only source of power in Russia - that must keep an eye on the government they have chosen and the state bodies formed by it, and not the government - for our every sneeze. Let's fill up the Ministry of Communications, the Duma, the President and other state bodies with demands not to introduce or adopt this bill - and the Security Council, the FSB, and the Prosecutor General's Office - with demands to intervene and prevent a threat to state security!