The government has approved penalties for the use of foreign couriers in a number of cases, according to TELMENEWS.RU
Additional measures to the law on the prohibition of the use of foreign messengers, which entered into force on March 1, want to be taken by the government. By using Discord, Microsoft Teams, Skype for Business, Snapchat, Telegram, Threema, Viber, WhatsApp and WeChat, you cannot provide public services, transfer personal data and perform banking transactions. But there are no penalties for this yet. The government decided to correct the situation.
The draft law on fines of up to 50,000 rubles for officials and up to 700,000 rubles for organizations was supported by the government and is expected to be submitted to the State Duma in the near future, writes Parliamentskaya Gazeta. Amendments will be made to the Code of Administrative Violations.
Banks, financial institutions, investment funds, non-state pension funds and public companies, in which the state’s shareholding is greater than 50%, will be sanctioned. It is impossible to use foreign programs in the provision of public services or the performance of a state task in connection with the transfer of payment documents or personal data of Russians.
Officials have been banned from using foreign messengers for work since last year. For business correspondence, the national courier VK is indicated.
“Where the information exchanged by employees of state-owned enterprises has value from the state’s point of view, there will be a restriction for work communications,” said Maksut Shadayev, head of the Ministry of Digital Development, at the CNews Forum. conference 2022.
Civil servants can only use Telegram, WhatsApp or Viber for personal communications, he added.
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