The development of the Gosdoki application is envisaged by the Digital Citizen Profile (CSP) project, the development of which is the responsibility of the National Innovation System working group, headed by Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Chernyshenko. Vedomosti got acquainted with the draft program.
Chernyshenko’s office confirmed that the possibility of creating such an application is currently being discussed.
The same information was confirmed by a source close to the leadership of the Ministry of Finance.
According to the project passport, the mobile application can be launched as early as 2021, and its development will cost the state 1.3 billion rubles, with 400 million rubles. scheduled to be allocated this year. Who will develop the application is not indicated in the project passport.
Until 2024, “Gosdoki” will allow electronic submission of up to 30 types of electronic documents, including SNILS, OMS, TIN, driver’s license, etc. Paper equivalents of these documents (except for the passport) will no longer be issued, the authors of the project explain. This will save the resources spent on printing 5 billion paper documents per year.
The CPG project, among other things, provides for the development of a state system of biometric identification by face and voice (EBS, its operator is Rostelecom) and a service for obtaining consent to access personal data on the Unified Portal of Public Services.
The implementation of the project is designed to reduce the number of paper personal documents in circulation and provide convenience for the citizen, says the explanations to the CPG.
It became known in February of this year that an experiment will take place in Russia to replace paper personal documents with their digital counterparts. Then President Vladimir Putin ordered to conduct such an experiment with the participation of the FSB until the end of autumn 2021, and Chernyshenko proposed to implement this in the form of a mobile application. It was assumed that such a pilot project would make it possible to determine a list of documents that should be stored electronically, a list of cases in which the use of digital duplicates is permissible, as well as security measures to protect citizens from unlawful use of their data.
The introduction of digital documents is an expected and logical solution, experts say. In fact, even now all these documents are a copy of a digital record in state systems, says Karen Kazaryan, an analyst with the Russian Association for Electronic Communications.
The trend towards digitalization of such documents is the right way, agrees Kirill Solodovnikov, General Director of the Information Security Division of Softline: “It would be logical to link all this data to an e-passport, which they promise to launch at the end of this – early next year”.
Citizens’ passports will not be stored in the “State Documents”; a separate mobile application will be created for the electronic passport, says the passport of the “Digital Citizen Profile” project.
According to the draft decree of the President of the Russian Federation, published on March 19 on the portal of regulatory legal acts, Muscovites will be able to issue an electronic passport from December 1, 2021, and throughout Russia the procedure will be launched no later than July 1, 2023.
It is important that all digital documents are stored in compliance with strict cybersecurity rules, emphasizes the chief expert of Kaspersky Lab Sergey Golovanov: “It is necessary that encryption is used, data is transmitted in hashed form, and access is strictly regulated. In the case of such sensitive data, this is critically important, since a leak can lead to significant problems, such as a surge in social engineering or attempts to forge identity. “
How secure the application will be depends primarily not on the state, but on the cleanliness of the users themselves – whether they adhere to the rules of digital hygiene, as well as on how competent the contractor will design the infrastructure and how the rules for using duplicate documents will be formed, the founder believes and General Director of Qrator Labs Alexander Lyamin: “For example, the portal” Gosuslugi “has been working for a long time and quite successfully: no high-profile incidents related to it have been identified.”
Solodovnikov concludes that the likelihood of theft of personal information from third-party resources or theft of data using phishing sites is much higher than a large-scale leak from government systems.
The Ministry of Digital Affairs refrained from commenting.
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