The Federal Security Service (FSB) of Russia wants special access to information systems and data aggregators of taxi aggregators. The FSB has submitted a draft decree to the Russian government for this purpose. The current proposal in the decree is to monitor geolocation and payment data. The document is publicly available on the draft regulatory legal acts portal.
The new regulation will require taxi orders that are dispersing information to provide the FSB with 24/7 remote access to the systems and databases used to obtain, store, transmit and process taxi requests. The FSB argues that such access is necessary to comply with the upcoming taxi law, set to become effective on September 1, 2023.
The draft decree also mandates that if a taxi order service cannot provide the FSB access, they must offer the reason for the inability and inform them of the appropriate timeline to satisfy the request. If the request is marked as “urgent,” the aggregator has to provide the information within three working days. If such a mark does not exist, the time frame increases to ten working days. The decree does not provide for a judicial or procedural process to fulfill the request.