Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Soldatov, Andrei
• Borogan, Irina

Titel

Russia’s Surveillance State

Ist Teil von

• World policy journal, 2013-10, Vol.30 (3), p.23-30

Ort / Verlag

Durham: Duke University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2013

Quelle

PAIS Index

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• For years, Russian secret services have been busy tightening their hold over Internet users in their country, and now they're helping their counterparts in the rest of the former Soviet Union do the same. In the future, Russia may even succeed in splintering the web, breaking off from the global Internet a Russian intranet that's easier for it to control. Over the last two years, the Kremlin has transformed Russia into a surveillance state -- at a level that would have made the Soviet KGB (Committee for State Security) envious. Seven Russian investigative and security agencies have been granted the legal right to intercept phone calls and emails. But it's the Federal Security Service, the successor to the KGB, that defines interception procedures, and they've done that in a very peculiar way. Here, Soldatov and Borogan probe how the successors to the KGB are taking far greater license with their peoples' freedom than the NSA ever dreamed possible. Adapted from the source document.