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From the first day of October, the application of the law will extend to internet operators, who will have to keep for half a year all the internet traffic of private users (written and voice messages , photos, videos, etc.) broadcast in the last 30 days.
The law, much criticized by both operators and users, was promulgated two years ago as part of a package of legal reforms under the pretext of counter-terrorism.
Mobile phone companies and Internet providers involved (social networks, and even online stores, among others), warned that the implementation of the legislation will cost tens of billions of dollars.
All calculations can be small in a country of 145 million people
In the same legislation – known as "Yarovaya Law" because of the name of the representative Irina Yarovaya who proposed – the authorities of this country have banned the operation of Telegram message service in Russia.
The law requires all courier services to transmit keys to decipher the messages of their users, but the telegram refused to do so
The Russian court banned the operation of the Telegram last April, and a few days later, the Russian communications regulator, Roskomnadzor, waged a mbadive campaign to block all the servers in which the courier service was "sheltered". his commitment to continue working in Russia.
Russian businessman Pavel Durov, the creator of Telegram, who lives in the UK, launched a counter-offensive to avoid the medium-term blockade.
The war between Roskomnadzor and Telegram paralyzed millions of users and dozens of big Internet companies such as Google, Apple and Amazon, in the first few weeks when the Russian regulator tried to block the message service.
But despite all their efforts, the service has continued to run smoothly in Russia, at least until now.
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