Contents tagged with ban on anonymizers

  • Russia's law banning anonymizers goes into effect

    On November 1, Russia’s law that prohibits the use of anonymizers and VPN services went into effect.

    Under this law Roskomnadzor (Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology and Mass Media) must create and maintain a Federal State Information System (FGIS) which contains a list of prohibited resources.

    The press service told TASS news agency that the FGIS is now established and is being tested. Kaspersky Lab, Opera Software AS, Mail.RU and Yandex are …

  • Russia creates department to fight internet anonymizers and Telegram messenger

    Russia’s Federal State Unitary Enterprise “General Radio Frequency Center” (GRFC) has created a special department which investigates and analyses means of blocking websites and online services, and how to bypass the blocking, said Roskomnadzor (Russia’s Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology and Mass Media) head Alexander Zharov, newspaper Izvestiya reports.

    “They [the department] practice blocking all the resources which would have to be blocked if they …