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In Russia, they want to develop an analogue of Telegram with reference to “public services”


June 3 11:42

In Russia, they plan to create an analogue of Telegram with the functions of money transfers, data exchange and binding to “public services”. It reports about it “Parliamentary newspaper.”

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Deputies propose to develop a “sovereign messenger” in order to protect against scammers, since foreign platforms are often used by attackers to communicate with victims. The initiative was issued on May 28 as amendments to the bill on the features of the processing of personal data.

The platform, according to the head of the State Duma of the State Duma of Sergei Boyarsky, “will provide the creation of a trusted and safe environment for communication, will make it possible not to use paper documents, but to certify personality with a digital ID.”

The deputy chairman of the State Duma IT Committee Anton Gorylykin believes that the competitive features of the domestic platform can be the fight against anonymity and a guarantee of user security.

In the conversation with “Parliamentary newspaper” he He also noted that this can be achieved by deep integration with state digital services.

“Our amendments suggest this along with the capabilities of electronic signature, digital ID, as well as windows of popular Russian Internet services,” emphasized Anton Gorelkin.