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Summarize this content to 100 words The mass media reported that as part of the amendments to the Federal Law “On Information, Information Technology and Information Protection” and the Federal Law “On Communications” (draft law No. 570420-7), Russian users registered on Russian resources from foreign mail until December 2023 will have unrestricted access to these services and platforms.”The law is not retroactive. Those who have registered before retain their access. This norm applies only to those Internet resources where there is user registration. To access, for example, Yandex, registration is not required,” Oleksandr Khinshtein, head of the State Duma Committee on Information Policy, explained to the media. According to him, this also applies to the State Services service.”The amendment is aimed at protecting the personal data of Russians – often it is the registration through foreign services that turns out to be a lie, through which personal data gets into open access or is stolen by cybercriminals,” Khinstein approved.On July 25, 2023, the State Duma in the second reading approved restrictions from December 1, 2023 on registration on Russian Internet sites using foreign e-mail services. According to the text of draft law No. 570420-7, to register an account on sites in the Russian segment of the Internet (if there is a registration option there), users will have to provide as a legal method of registration: phone number of the Russian operator; data for logging in through the single portal “State Services” (ESIA); individual data through the Unified Biometric System (UES); another information system that ensures the authorization of website users and whose owner is a citizen of the Russian Federation who does not have the citizenship of another state, or a Russian legal entity with less than 50% foreign ownership.The representative of the State Duma explained to the mass media that by “another information system” they mean Russian services, for example, “Vkontakte” or mail such as Mail[.]ru, and it will be impossible to register using e-mail addresses of foreign services.According to the author of the amendments, deputy Anton Gorelkin, this legislative initiative was discussed with business, and these changes are aimed at limiting “the use of foreign systems that provide such authorization for the authorization of Russian users on information resources owned by Russian citizens and organizations.” “Authorization can be done by e-mail, but it must be Russian mail,” Gorelkin clarified.The text of draft law No. 570420-7 does not discuss whether restrictions on the methods of registration of sites from the register of news aggregators (social network “In Contact”, news aggregators “Rambler” and “Zen”) or from the register of organizers of information distribution (VRI, including social networks and messengers) will be affected. Lawyers believe that the procedure specified in the draft law will affect all site owners who are involved in user authorization.The current version of the amendments to the Federal Law “On Information, Information Technologies and Protection of Information” and the Federal Law “On Communication” do not provide for sanctions for owners of Internet resources who do not provide the possibility of registration in the necessary ways. “Measures of responsibility are really not prescribed, it will happen later, after the assessment of law enforcement practice,” Gorelkin clarified.

users registered in Runet from foreign mail until the end of 2023 will have access to resources