Putin’s ‘Big Brother’ Surveillance Law Criticized by Snowden
- Operators told to store phone, internet records for six months
- Implementation costs may reach more than $30 billion
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Russian President Vladimir Putin signed an anti-terror law criticized for eroding civil-liberties as well as the coffers of telephone carriers, who may have to spend an estimated $30 billion plus to implement it.
The law compels Russia’s phone companies to keep recordings of users’ calls and internet activity for six months. The government will establish the precise requirements of the law, according to the Kremlin website.