Meanwhile in Putin Land…

In the midst all much bad…worse…

Data encryption

There's another important amendment aimed at “organizers of information distribution on the Internet”: if an online service—a messenger app, a social network, an email client, or even just a website—encrypts its data, its owners will be required to help the Federal Security Service decipher any message sent by its users. The fine for refusing to cooperate can be as high as a million rubles (more than $15,000).
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+Electronic Frontier Foundation  #tor  

On Friday, June 24, Russia’s State Duma approved a final draft of several anti-terrorist laws spearheaded by deputy Irina Yarovaya. Though lawmakers removed many of the legislation’s most odious amendments at the last minute (which, in part, would have made it possible to revoke convicts’ Russian citizenship and their right to travel abroad), the bill still revises dozens of existing laws in ways that could have profound consequences for people l…