the President of the Russian Federation for the Development of Civil Society and Human Rights,

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The government submitted Bill No. 992331-7 to the State Duma in July 2020, and in February 2021, the draft law was adopted in the first reading. However, according to the "Legislative Activity Support System", the passage of this document stalled for more than three years. Amendments for the second reading appeared on the State Duma portal only on May 30, 2024. The bill was supposed to be considered on June 11, but it was postponed.

Igor Ashmanov, member of the uae whatsapp resource Council under President of Ashmanov and Partners LLC, linked the lengthy passage of laws that tighten the processing of personal data with the lobbying activities of the largest digital platforms. According to his assessment, which he expressed at the conference "Data Economy. Challenges and Prospects", the largest banks, retail companies and telecommunications operators actively use personal data for targeted advertising campaigns, which bring them significant income.

The Big Data Association (BDA), which includes the largest banks, telecom operators, and technology companies, has indeed publicly criticized many regulatory acts concerning the tightening of the procedure for processing personal data and increasing liability for violators. For example, the BDA criticized the amendments to the Criminal Code for their "vague nature" and the risk of criminal liability for those who accidentally came into possession of data arrays.

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The Big Data Association (BDA) asked deputies to clarify the wording of the draft law on criminal liability for working with personal data. This initiative was submitted to the State Duma in December and suggests the possibility of imprisonment for up to 10 years for illegal collection or use of personal data.

The ABD proposed postponing the consideration of draft law No. 992331-7 and removing a number of problematic provisions, such as the creation of a state information system (GIS), to which operators are required to transfer personal data.

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Business asks authorities to abandon bill on data circulation
Ahead of the second reading of the bill on data circulation, scheduled for June 11, business has made what may be a decisive attempt to fight it off. As Forbes has learned, the Big Data Association has asked the authorities to postpone consideration of the document and abandon the creation of a unified state information system, to which Russian companies will be obliged to provide personal data in their possession.

"The amendments imply a unilateral transfer of data to the GIS by commercial companies without the actual possibility of using it by businesses. Training AI models involves uploading the results of model training, which is directly prohibited by the draft. At the same time, the draft does not solve the problems it was originally aimed at - it does not regulate data circulation, does not create favorable legal conditions for collecting, storing and processing data using new technologies, in terms of establishing the procedure for depersonalization. Thus, from the point of view of developing data analytics and AI projects, the draft deprives businesses of any incentive to develop such projects," this is how the press service of the ABD commented to ComNews on the claims against the draft law.