The State Duma proposes to tighten penalties for leaking personal data

2023-12-04 13:50:20

He recalled that amendments to the Code of Administrative Offenses and the Criminal Code are made on behalf of the President of the Russian Federation. According to Turchak, “many companies” do not protect users’ personal data “properly.” He noted that current fines are up to 300,000 rubles. for legal entities, “there is little incentive”, as a result of which there are databases on the black market that contain information about approximately 80% of the population of the Russian Federation. “According to the most conservative estimates, the damage from leaks last year alone amounted to about 8 billion rubles,” Turchak noted.