Data on online correspondence and calls will be required to be stored for three years.

Information dissemination companies (ORI) will have to store data on user negotiations and correspondence for three years. We are talking about information about the reception, transmission, delivery and processing of voice information, written text, images, sounds and electronic messages (the innovations do not apply to their contents).

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This follows from a package of anti-fraud amendments to legislation submitted to the State Duma by the government and adopted in the first reading on March 18. Izvestia drew attention to these changes. In particular, the amendments to the law "On Information" provide for an increase in the storage period of such metadata: now it obliges them to store them for only one year.

The extension of the storage period of ORI information from one year to three years is due to the need to improve the security and protection of users on the Internet, the Ministry of Finance noted. An increase in this period will create a more effective system for investigating and suppressing crimes such as fraud, cybercrime and other illegal activities, they added.

At the same time, officials do not expect an increase in business costs associated with tripling the data storage period: they do not predict changes for ordinary users either.

Storing large amounts of data is necessary in order to analyze incidents that occurred several years earlier — fraudsters tend to return to old deception schemes that people have already forgotten about, Denis Kuskov, CEO of TelecomDaily, added. He agrees that the business is unlikely to incur large costs — after all, metadata storage systems were already installed initially, they need to be expanded, not created from scratch.

Increasing the volume of stored data will require expanding server capacities or renting cloud solutions, added Igor Bederov, Director of the T.Hunter Investigations Department. For large companies (social networks, messengers) This can result in millions of rubles annually, and small platforms may face unaffordable costs, he believes.

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