Seriously Risky Business Newsletter
August 10, 2023
Why Russia's Plan to Hide Spy Data Will Fail
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Policy & Intelligence
The Russian government wants to protect its intelligence and law enforcement officials from journalists, activists and foreign intelligence agencies by giving itself the power to change personal information in the systems of local data operators.
This is shutting the gate after the horse has bolted, but we can see why they want to try.
Our colleague Catalin Cimpanu reported on the draft legislation in Risky Business News on August 7: