The Russian company Yandex has made a comment on the Federal Security Service’s requirement to provide them with encryption keys to user data.
“The [corresponding] law obligates us to provide information which is needed to decode messages; it does not include the requirement to hand over the keys needed to decrypt all traffic. The purpose of the law is respecting security interests, and we fully share the importance of this purpose,” Meduza quotes Yandex press officers.
According to the company, the law may be executed without any breach of user data’s confidentiality.
“We believe it is important to keep a balance between security and privacy of users, as well as take into account the principles of the equitable application of regulation to all market actors,” the statement reads.
On June 3, rbc.ru reported citing its own sources that Yandex had not been giving encryption keys to the data of Yandex.Mail and Yandex.Disc services to the FSB for several months.
Earlier, Telegram messenger was fined and then blacklisted in Russia over their refuse to meet the same requirement.
