Storage of correspondence for Internet services.

Foreign Internet services e-mail and instant messaging will be required, along with Russian companies to provide data storage on the activity of its users within six months and certainly in Russia. This follows from the text of "anti-terrorism package" of laws that the State Duma finally passed Tuesday in the third reading. According to experts, if the foreign companies refuse to carry out the new law, access to their services in Russia can be blocked.

What lawmakers wrote:
Amendments to the law "On information, information technologies and information protection" are part of the "anti-terrorism package" adopted by the State Duma in the third reading. According to them, companies operating on the electronic communications of Internet users, are obliged within six months to store information on all messages sent. Moreover, this information must be stored on the territory of Russia, which in this case is located in the country of servers, where all messages sent to Internet users in six months.

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