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Great grip. State strengthens oversight of each and every

The absence of any of anonymity along with the surveillance is no longer a fantasy for Ukrainians, and goes into the category of harsh reality. State strengthens control and supervision of all and each one individually
Kiev businessman Andrei (name is not specified, for obvious reasons), was detained in connection with his drinking alcohol in a public place. And the police was not only drawn up a protocol of Man that he has committed an administrative offense, but also law enforcement officers IMEI rewrote his mobile phone. This unique number pyatnadtsatiznachny unit that is assigned to the product during its manufacture. But Andrew and he was not opposed to the transfer of its law enforcement agencies. He is sure that if the phone is stolen or lost, then find it so it will be much easier and faster.

But it was under the pretext that you may need to search for a stolen phone, today Ukrainian police and collects base of individual numbers. In principle, such a charge is made for several years. Especially since the number linked to the name and surname of the owner. Accordingly, this framework has incredible numbers help law enforcement officers that they can follow any movements of defendants in criminal cases, as well as all their contacts. But just stop to make this method of law enforcement officers are not ready. They tend to be aware of the one who is behind each account in a social network. And they are ready to go out, to create, and subsequently to monitor very huge database, which will be all the information about every citizen. It will store all the data from the fingerprint with samples of signatures of every person to detailed information about its illnesses, as well as the medicine he takes. And I expect the remains quite awhile. Already in the next few days the president can connect such a program and put it into law.

Quick to help. Kievan Artem Pochepetsky convinced that the police quickly tracks the location of stolen phones IMEI

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In October, one of the managers working in an advertising agency, Artem Pochepetskogo stolen mobile phone. He simply went to the bus, but when I came out into the street, the phone was not in his pocket. He basically did not expect to recover the loss. But just in case I decided to write an application, leaving them with their personal phone number.

And just two weeks, much to the surprise Andrew, his phone was found by law enforcement officials. But it turned out he was in quite a new owner in a completely different city. But the new owner claimed that purchased this phone through the Internet. "When I came to the district police station, and there showed me at the terminal, which is reflected in real time, exactly where all the stolen phones. Maximum accuracy, up to five meters, "he told us the victim. Security officials explained that this is simply a computer that has a special software. It connects to the data centers of all possible mobile operators. And it is using such a terminal, law enforcement officers may carry out monitoring of all missing and stolen phones.

Naturally, not only blocked.

The Ukrainian State Centre of Radio Frequencies is a base of IMEI to two thousand of the ninth year. This database contains all the phones that were imported into the country. According to official data such a measure is necessary in order to produce the most high-quality fighting the smuggling of such phones in Ukraine, as well as to maximize could combat phone theft. And if the device really is stolen, it is easy enough to apply to the police, which sends it to the Centre of Radio Frequencies and makes an individual phone number in a special black list. But keep in mind that in this case the owner of this phone is very much at risk of becoming involved in the case, if it is carried out any special verification.

"In order to start spying on the location of the mobile phone, it is necessary for it to have been a criminal case. Only under these conditions, cellular operator can provide the necessary information only upon written request by the head of the police department with stamp "- explains the matter detective detective agency" Conrad "Yuri. It very often asked a variety of clients who live would conduct surveillance of the location of a phone. "But we can not provide such services, as they are the exclusive prerogative of the police. Especially since this requires only the official reason only in the form of a criminal case, "- says Yuri.

Mobile operators themselves have never been slow to disclose any specific details of their cooperation with law enforcement authorities. For example, in "Kyivstar" began to refer to the fact that the law "On Telecommunications" simply prohibits any way disclose any technical details that are involved in the operational and investigative activities carried out by law enforcement agencies. Naturally, this is the law and obliges them to do the installation of special equipment only for its own funds, which allows law enforcement agencies to obtain all necessary information about a particular user.

Creation of the very base, where an individual phone number attached to a particular individual person, despite the fact that the beginning of his story almost a decade ago, but still is not settled completely by the legislation process, and this is recognized currently deputy, Regions Vasyl Gritsak. It called all the chief lobbyist for the security forces in the parliament. But speaking more simply, this practice is not fully legal. Although despite all this, the system takes place. "It is through this system during the football championship Euro-2012 all Ukrainian law enforcement can track the conversations and movements made by the leaders of groups created among football hooligans" - told us Gritsak. As he argues, the UK authorities voluntarily handed over their Ukrainian counterparts even numbers of British football hooligans, who were planning to go to Ukraine. But to confirm this information or refute it until the Interior Ministry failed our edition. In some strange way a formal request was lost in the department, and is already at the time of this issue went to press yet any comments on this issue were received.

There is simply no anonymous

Initially, Ukrainian law enforcers conducted a trivial inspection of documents, and monitor telephone conversations. But apparently now it's time they move to a larger process, which also applies to the global Internet check. Thus, in late October the head of the Ministry of the Interior to combat cybercrime Maxim Litvinov gave information about how it would be just fine to limit to a large extent the anonymity of users in social networks. It has been proposed to carry out the registration in VKontakte and Facebook only when entering passport data. But the idea did not take the support and the police itself disown her. But no one did not exclude the fact that the SIM card is sure to be sold only with the mandatory identification number. It refers to the fact that this practice for many years exists in Russia. It was proposed and another option to the end user identification occurred or that equipment, desktop computers, laptops and much more. And this function was to lie on the shoulders of providers, because it is through the mediation of their users use the Internet.

But while all this is just in the plans. However, if all these plans will actually be implemented, the privacy of Ukrainians would be endangered in any case their rights are severely curtailed in this respect. "Cancellation of anonymity to use mobile cards is the first step on the way to the elimination of the right to full freedom of movement," - he gives his opinion a board member of the Internet Association of Ukraine Ellina lace-Tabakov. But what concerns a question of anonymity in social networks, here it believes that such companies Facebook may well provide their own struggle with various fake profiles and accounts. "All those new restrictions appearing on the Internet are a very serious threat of abuse, corruption and issues of extortion, as well as committing various other crimes, which is a very dangerous moment," - said lace-Tabakov.

Caught in the registryAlmost at the beginning of the fall of the Verkhovna Rada took another major step towards in order to strengthen its control over all Ukrainians. Virtually the entire parliamentarian voted to pass the bill "On the Unified State Register of demographic." The main purpose of this document, the author of which was Gritsak, it is to greatly simplify the whole procedure of crossing the borders of the European Union. And the main proposal in this direction is equipped with an electronic chip passports. And these chips will be all biometric information. Exactly the same changes must be made with regard to the internal Ukrainian passports, which is planned to be made in the form of cards with an electronic chip. Passport also should be a booklet, the first bookend which will contain this same chip. And it is assumed that even passports should already start producing from the birth of the child, and then making them re-issue no more than once a decade.

But this law, which was sent to the president for signature, immediately criticized. It opposes him about seventy human rights organizations. In their opinion, this bill simply pursuing their own goals and not much else. And the purpose of the author. "Everything seems to be done solely for the liberalization of the visa regime with the EU. But in fact, the law has its own brand and other purposes ", - said the director of the opinion program" Rule of Law "International Fund" Revival "Roman Romanov. He believes that the project only involves the creation of a new database, but no more. This will be a single demographic population register on the basis of which will still produce a variety of documents, including passports.

Experts also estimate all this as an opportunity to create a centralized information about the population of the country. But Romanov noted here that the registry will be able to connect the information systems for the various departments. Besides the fact that it will include a database of traffic police and the Tax Inspectorate, as there may be a database of the Ministry of Health. But there will be soon listed diagnoses of people, their families, physicians, and all the names of drugs that patients must take. "And given the level of protection of public databases that are in free flight sold at the Kiev market, the database will start to enjoy the incredible demand, because it will combine as much important information about people, which can be used for any purpose" - making its forecast Romanov .

But this critique their answers also gives Gritsak answering recent examples. He says that if the law of a single registry would have worked, it could ba a long time to find the killer of the shopping center "Caravan." He would not have been able to leave the country as quickly and escape. "Today, a similar criminal can forge their own any documents, including passports, using a different name. It is enough to go on "Petrovka" and make an order for a hundred Ukrainian passport. And it was all done. It is enough to give three thousand dollars to get a couple of hours a passport photo. Moreover, if the same documents will be biometric, that they simply can not be faked, "- says it all deputy. And print it will be a private concern "EDAPS", which is currently the monopoly organization in terms of production of forms for a variety of organizations. And MP rejects any accusations against this bill. From certain that almost convinced President Viktor Yanukovych to the signed the decree that will happen very soon. But opponents of the law, we can only hope for a veto.

Vitaliy Atanasov