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Eugene

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Sun Jun 26, 2016, 02:03 PM Jun 2016

Russia passes 'Big Brother' anti-terror laws

Source: The Guardian

Russia passes 'Big Brother' anti-terror laws

Alec Luhn in Moscow
Sunday 26 June 2016 16.29 BST

Russia’s parliament has passed harsh anti-terrorism measures that human rights campaigners including the NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden say will roll back personal freedoms and privacy.

The lower house of parliament voted 325 to 1 on Friday to adopt the “Yarovaya law”, a package of amendments authored by the ruling United Russia party member Irina Yarovaya, who is known for previous legislative crackdowns on protesters and non-governmental organisations.

Snowden, who has lived in Russia since receiving asylum in 2013, tweeted on Saturday that the “Big Brother law” was an “unworkable, unjustifiable violation of rights” that would “take money and liberty from every Russian without improving safety”.

The legislation makes it a crime to not warn the authorities of “reliable” information about planned terrorist attacks, armed uprisings, hijacking and several other crimes. Expressing approval of terrorism on the internet will now be punishable with up to seven years in prison.

The legislation obliges telephone and internet providers to store records of all communications for six months and all metadata for three years, as well as help intelligence agencies decode encrypted messaging services. Telecoms firms have complained that users rather than providers typically possess the encryption keys, and that storing this huge amount of information would require expensive new infrastructure.

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jun/26/russia-passes-big-brother-anti-terror-laws
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Russia passes 'Big Brother' anti-terror laws (Original Post) Eugene Jun 2016 OP
Hum, guess Russia is not afraid of checking in on anyone they please. Thinkingabout Jun 2016 #1
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