Who, how and why is going to regulate Big Data in Russia?
This morning I received another PR letter with this next sentence:
The topic (“regulation of Big Data”) immediately interested me (I was at its origins), and I asked in reply: “What kind of bill is the speech about?”
“That's about it, ria.ru/technology/20170919/1505085765.html, ” my counterparty answered promptly by correspondence:
Further study of this issue in communication with several potential experts on the issue and in public sources on the Internet made it possible to find out the following.
1. In addition to this publication, who knows nothing about such an initiative. No one saw the bill, or at least its draft. So here it’s not at all very clear: how can one comment on what is not.
2. Apparently, someone has a desire to make the next law on the next IT regulation, but so far all this, most likely, has the nature of preliminary sensing of public opinion (a “fishing rod” is cast and public reaction is monitored). Actually, this is clearly seen from the RIA news - such authority as the head of Roskomnadzor also knows about the initiative only at the level of private private information, for the reliability of which no one is responsible (this is evident from his words “as far as I know”).
3. At the same time, the RIA news can hardly be called news. The fact is that they talked about a similar idea to create the "Big Data Law" in the beginning of June of this year , and even in the autumn of last, and a year ago the same Mr. Zharov spoke about the issue, almost as if it had already been resolved, saying then (as now) that the bill would be ready by the end of the year (but at that time it was said about the end of 2016).
In short, from all this sequence of news rumors, only one thing is clear: the process of developing more and more new requirements for state regulation of the information sphere continues, although it remains a mystery about what and why the authors of the next initiatives write down in legislative requirements this time.
And here I want to return to the source of the topic "regulation of Big Data".
The fact is that back in May 2015 (more than two years ago!) This very issue was discussed at the Analytical Center under the Government of Russia in a round table format:"Do I have to legislative regulation in the field of big data" . The general impression of that meeting was some kind of artificiality, far-fetchedness of the topic itself. After all, to solve the problem, you first need to formulate (or show) the problem itself, and then it looked like someone really wanted to solve something (in this case, “adjust”), and it was necessary to come up with the original problem.
This question is “what caused the agenda itself?” - was then asked to the organizers, to which they gave an answer - "The government asked us to study the issue."
In general, then the result of the discussion was the conclusion that legislative regulation of Big Data is not necessary. That there are no problems that need to be addressed with the help of such regulation:
Yes, of course, much could have happened in two years (from that expert discussion). “Everything flows, everything changes ...” Quite possibly, now problems have been discovered.
But it would be nice to know which ones?
We are ready to provide a comment with an analysis and forecast on the Big Data regulatory bill will be ready by the end of 2017.
The topic (“regulation of Big Data”) immediately interested me (I was at its origins), and I asked in reply: “What kind of bill is the speech about?”
“That's about it, ria.ru/technology/20170919/1505085765.html, ” my counterparty answered promptly by correspondence:
By the end of 2017, the Media and Communications Union (ISS) will present a bill, including one that regulates the use of “big” user data (Big Data), the head of Roskomnadzor Alexander Zharov told RIA Novosti
Further study of this issue in communication with several potential experts on the issue and in public sources on the Internet made it possible to find out the following.
1. In addition to this publication, who knows nothing about such an initiative. No one saw the bill, or at least its draft. So here it’s not at all very clear: how can one comment on what is not.
2. Apparently, someone has a desire to make the next law on the next IT regulation, but so far all this, most likely, has the nature of preliminary sensing of public opinion (a “fishing rod” is cast and public reaction is monitored). Actually, this is clearly seen from the RIA news - such authority as the head of Roskomnadzor also knows about the initiative only at the level of private private information, for the reliability of which no one is responsible (this is evident from his words “as far as I know”).
3. At the same time, the RIA news can hardly be called news. The fact is that they talked about a similar idea to create the "Big Data Law" in the beginning of June of this year , and even in the autumn of last, and a year ago the same Mr. Zharov spoke about the issue, almost as if it had already been resolved, saying then (as now) that the bill would be ready by the end of the year (but at that time it was said about the end of 2016).
In short, from all this sequence of news rumors, only one thing is clear: the process of developing more and more new requirements for state regulation of the information sphere continues, although it remains a mystery about what and why the authors of the next initiatives write down in legislative requirements this time.
And here I want to return to the source of the topic "regulation of Big Data".
The fact is that back in May 2015 (more than two years ago!) This very issue was discussed at the Analytical Center under the Government of Russia in a round table format:"Do I have to legislative regulation in the field of big data" . The general impression of that meeting was some kind of artificiality, far-fetchedness of the topic itself. After all, to solve the problem, you first need to formulate (or show) the problem itself, and then it looked like someone really wanted to solve something (in this case, “adjust”), and it was necessary to come up with the original problem.
This question is “what caused the agenda itself?” - was then asked to the organizers, to which they gave an answer - "The government asked us to study the issue."
In general, then the result of the discussion was the conclusion that legislative regulation of Big Data is not necessary. That there are no problems that need to be addressed with the help of such regulation:
One of the results of the meeting, recorded in its minutes, was a rather long list of proposals on how our state can use big data for the benefit of social development. The problems of actually big data from the point of view of the need for their regulatory regulation were not identified.
Yes, of course, much could have happened in two years (from that expert discussion). “Everything flows, everything changes ...” Quite possibly, now problems have been discovered.
But it would be nice to know which ones?