La agencia de control de Internet de Rusia, Roskomnadzor, advierte que hoy entraron en vigor las leyes que proh\u00edben el uso de muchas aplicaciones de mensajer\u00eda privada extranjera en el gobierno y las agencias estatales rusas.<\/p>\n
Russia\u2019s internet watchdog agency Roskomnadzor warns that laws banning the use of many foreign private messaging applications in Russian government and state agencies came into force today.<\/p>\n
The law is “On information, information technology, and information protection,” specifically\u00a0Part 8-10 of Article 10<\/a>, which prohibits Russian agencies from using information exchange systems owned by foreign entities.<\/p>\n “The law establishes a ban for a number of Russian organizations on the use of foreign messengers (information systems and computer programs owned by foreign persons that are designed and (or) used for exchanging messages exclusively between their users, in which the sender determines the recipients of messages and does not provide for placement by Internet users publicly available information on the Internet),”\u00a0warns Roskomnadzor<\/a>\u00a0in a translated alert published today on its portal.<\/p>\n The banned services mentioned by\u00a0Roskomnadzor include the following:<\/p>\n Interestingly, the California-based “Zoom,” one of the world’s most widely used video conferencing, instant messaging, and voice calls platforms, isn’t on Roskomnadzor’s list. Likewise, the encrypted messaging service “Signal” is not mentioned in the list.<\/p>\n\n