The state is attracting kicksharing businesses to search for missing people

MTS Yuret, the second largest kicksharing operator in Russia, and the LizaAlert search and rescue team have signed a cooperation agreement under which the service will help volunteers search for missing people. This was reported to Izvestia by the company.

"Upon request from the MTS Yuret team, it will report on the presence or absence of accounts of missing people in the service's application, as well as help establish their last location using the available data on the trips of such users," a kicksharing representative explained to Izvestia.

He emphasizes that we are not talking about the exchange of personal customer data between a company and a public organization. Information that does not contain, for example, specific phone numbers, addresses, bank card numbers, etc., will be transmitted to rescuers when they provide documents from the Ministry of Internal Affairs that the missing user is wanted, MTS Yuret explains.

Whoosh is also ready to provide information about missing people to search services if there is an official request from the Interior Ministry to search for them, the company noted.

Business representatives note that the participation of kicksharing companies in the search for missing citizens is becoming more active after the government has outlined the need to involve high-tech companies that receive customer location data. Among them are mobile operators. On June 30, Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin instructed operators at a strategic session on the development of the communications industry to provide search and rescue teams with information about the location of missing people's smartphones.

The Russian authorities want to involve companies with information about the location of their customers in the search for missing people, and along with mobile operators, kicksharing is in the forefront, as they say, because it is possible to accurately and promptly transmit information about where the scooters are located, said Denis Kuskov, CEO of TelecomDaily.

The fact that rental companies express a desire to cooperate with rescuers is quite logical, from a technical point of view, the navigation modules of scooters are not much different from smartphones, so regulatory requirements for connecting them to the search for missing citizens can be introduced quite quickly, he believes.

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