{"id":1352,"date":"2017-07-14T20:43:42","date_gmt":"2017-07-14T20:43:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dekuzu.com\/en\/?p=1352"},"modified":"2017-07-14T20:43:42","modified_gmt":"2017-07-14T20:43:42","slug":"messengers-operating-in-russia-can-receive-more-freedom-from-russian-mobile-operators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dekuzu.com\/en\/2017\/07\/messengers-operating-in-russia-can-receive-more-freedom-from-russian-mobile-operators.html","title":{"rendered":"Messengers, operating in Russia, can receive more freedom from Russian mobile operators"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">New draft law, currently considered, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dekuzu.com\/en\/2017\/05\/new-draft-law-provides-regulation-for-messengers-like-viber-or-whatsapp-in-russia.html\">provides<\/a> regulation for messengers like Viber or WhatsApp. In initial draft it was provided that messengers have to identify its users. Identification can be made with help of subscriber\u2019s phone number and under agreement concluded between messenger and mobile operator. Such provision was very <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dekuzu.com\/en\/2016\/12\/russian-telecommunication-companies-proposed-regulation-for-viber-and-whatsapp.html\">advantageous<\/a> for mobile operators \u2013 without them messengers would not have opportunity to work in Russia.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">But after the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dekuzu.com\/ru\/docs\/Russian_messenger_law_second_reading.pdf\">second reading<\/a>, the draft law has been changed. There are two ways. One way is when messenger is not incorporated in Russia, and when messenger is incorporated in Russia. For those messengers, who preferred \u201cto run business officially\u201d in Russia, there is opportunity to identify its users without mobile operator. The Russian government can provide special requirements how to identify of messenger\u2019s user.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">For those, who is not incorporated in Russia, the requirement to identify users with help of mobile operator still remains. But it seems nobody knows for sure, how it will be implemented in practice. The outcome can be standard \u2013 blocking of messenger in Russia. The draft law also provides that access to messenger can be restricted only under court order.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New draft law, currently considered, provides regulation for messengers like Viber or WhatsApp. In initial draft it was provided that messengers have to identify its users. Identification can be made with help of subscriber\u2019s phone number and under agreement concluded<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dekuzu.com\/en\/2017\/07\/messengers-operating-in-russia-can-receive-more-freedom-from-russian-mobile-operators.html\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Messengers, operating in Russia, can receive more freedom from Russian mobile operators<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,18,20,27,24,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","category-law","category-legal-proposal","category-media","category-telecom","category-uncategorised","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dekuzu.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dekuzu.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dekuzu.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dekuzu.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dekuzu.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dekuzu.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1352\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dekuzu.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dekuzu.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dekuzu.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}