Dmitry Medvedev: the price of digital security is a threat to the loss of privacy

Digital security can jeopardize privacy. This was stated by Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev at the Open Innovations forum in Moscow.

The head of government noted that the Internet "creates tremendous opportunities for the development of the individual and for entire states." However, open data carries many threats.

“The concept of digital security includes many aspects. First of all, it is ensuring national interests. From a political point of view: if we live to see the moment when we have electronic voting, then this system should be protected from outside influence … In addition, there is a problem of terrorist threats, ”Medvedev emphasized.

He called personal data “a strategic resource,” but protecting it could threaten privacy:

“Ensuring security in the digital world has its opposite side, its price is the threat of loss of privacy, that is, in fact, the loss of privacy. This creates the risks of restricting freedom, manipulation. "

At the same time, Medvedev said that in the era of digital openness, everyone should think about “what trace he is ready to leave about himself”.

The Prime Minister also emphasized that Russia is focused on the development of a national system for the protection of personal data of citizens and its own regulation, which will be "framework."

“The law will never keep pace with technological change and that’s good. We must accept not prohibitive, but permissible norms, ”Medvedev said.

As an example of such initiatives, the prime minister called the draft “regulatory sandboxes”.

Medvedev does not believe that regulation in the field of digital technologies can be international:

“It is unlikely that in the coming years we can approach international conventions on key issues of digital development. Not because humanity has become more vicious … It's just that the development is so rapid that writing conventions for lawyers is a tremendous job, and even agree on this with two hundred states … ”

The head of the government of the Russian Federation also believes that technological cooperation will not help cope with the sanctions:

“I would lie to you if I said that science will destroy all sanctions, break the wall of misunderstanding, and we will communicate absolutely easily and naturally. It will not happen".

Recall that earlier Medvedev said that the regulation of the digital industry should be carried out through a set of regulations, and not through a single law, and market participants themselves should determine the standards.

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