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KGB Gets Unlimited Access To Telephone Companies Data BasesThe KGB (State Security Committee) and the Operating Analytical Centre (OAC) under Lukashenka’s administration are penetrating the cell phone companies by installing special equipment.Provisions for co-operation between mobile operators with the KGB and the OAC have been rubberstamped by Decree #129 of March 3, 2010. The KGB of Belarus and the OAC affiliated by Alyaksandr Lukashenka (OAC) have received access in on-line mode to databases of Belarusian mobile operators. Notably, penetrating lives of mobile communication subscribers will be carried out at the expense of cell phone companies. The matter does not concern legalization of the practice when law-enforcing agencies de facto addressed mobile operators for help, but about the KGB and OAC penetration in the work of mobile operators through installation of special equipment. According to the document, a mobile operator, using his own funds, is supposed to carry out purchase, installation, maintenance support and repair works for supporting electronic surveillance (System for Operational-Investigative Activities, SORM). If mobile operators acquire new equipment, they must adapt it to SORM facilities. They will know everything According to the document, a mobile operator must offer the KGB and the OAC free uninterrupted remote access to databases of clients. This pill can be only sugared by the demand to record such addresses automatically and store this information for 5 years. If round-the-clock remote access to databases of abonents is technically not feasible, mobile operators are to provide free full and accurate version of these databases in electronic form to the KGB, the Interior Affairs Ministry or the OAC using applications supplied by heads of abovementioned agencies. Under the document, databases of subscribers must include the following information about them: Physical persons: a number, name, surname, patronymic, subscriber’s address or address of terminal, subscriber’s numbers, information enabling to identify the subscriber or his terminal; and for cell phone subscribers – details of the identity document (its name, series, number, date of issue and the name of the state agency that issued the document); Legal entities: firm’s name, its legal address, the address where the terminal is installed, subscriber’s numbers, information enabling to identify the subscriber or his terminal. This article appeared in Belarusian Review, Vol. 22, No. 1 --------------------------------------------- Copyright 2010 Belarusian Review All rights reserved. belarusianreview@hotmailcom
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