Russian Internet users will be forced to register their web-connected devices

Russian Internet users will be forced to register their web-connected devices

Russia joins the list of countries fighting with online anonymity. Russian government (that is, Putin) has implemented a law bill according to which, starting on February 2020, every device connected to the Internet will have to be registered beforehand. This bill is supposed to help fight illegal trade of, for example, stolen smartphones, but it is not hard to figure out that it will give the Russian government means to trace anyone online using their MAC address or IMEI number. What is more, registration will not even be free, but will cost 100 ruble per device.

The bill will supposedly not encompass devices of foreigners visiting the USS… I mean Russia.

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