MOSCOW (Sputnik) – According to Izvestia, the Russian Federal Service for Supervision in the Sphere of Telecom, Information Technologies and Mass Communications (Roskomnadzor) does not support the initiative of the working group, but has offered an alternative option of having banks obtain certain information without getting the personal data of a phone company client.
Roskomnadzor spokesman Vadim Ampelonskiy told the newspaper that banks could ask for information on whether there was a recent ownership change of certain phone numbers.
"The development of modern technology forces us to improve the legislation – a bank needs to get information on the status of a client from the mobile operator for the timely prevention of fraud… It could be information about the change of a SIM-card, the presence of a lock, the geolocation of the device. Roskomnadzor [country's telecommunications watchdog] prohibits all that under the current legislation," member of the "Internet+Finances" working group Ekaterina Lobnova told the newspaper on Friday.
