“Nothing changes the way the company works.” HeadHunter is responsible for transferring user data to the FSB

Added HeadHunter, Russia’s largest job and employee search site. registration of information dissemination regulators (ORI). Headhunter LLC, according to the Roskomsvoboda project, was added to this list on December 5.

Companies included in the ARI registry are required by law to collect, store and provide to the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation all information about the actions and interactions of users during the year. In addition, correspondence of Internet users is required to be stored for six months.

Members of the ARI registry are required to provide any of this information at the request of law enforcement during operational search activities. They are also required to inform the FSB to decode electronic messages if they use additional encoding.

To voluntarily refuse to enter the ARI registry (part 1 of article 13.31) provided Fines ranging from 100,000 to 300,000 rubles (for legal entities). For refusing to provide information or decoding keys to the FSB – from 800 thousand to 1 million rubles.

HeadHunter website operates in Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan. According to company publications datathe resource has approximately 18 million monthly unique users. The HeadHunter database contains more than 61 million potential employee resumes, 1824 thousand company vacancies are published.

As part of the response to a vacancy, the site also has a messenger with which representatives of the employee and employer can contact.

“Technical character”

HeadHunter representatives stated in an interview with socialbites.ca that entering the ARI record will not change anything in the welding process.

“The inclusion of hh.ru in this registry is of a technical nature and does not change anything in the company’s work. All user data is collected, stored and processed in strict accordance with the law, as before. HeadHunter said that the procedures and processes for processing requests from regulatory and supervisory authorities to provide certain data are regulated.

“As with the services of other large IT companies, the hh.ru interface has a built-in communication platform (messenger), which is an additional object of regulation,” the representatives of the recruitment resource added.

350 defendants

Amendments to the law on access to information were adopted on 1 August 2014. To date, 348 items have been listed in the registry. Among the participants are the services of Yandex, VKontakte, Mail.Ru, LiveJournal, Vimeo.com, Bla Bla Car (blablacar.ru), 2gis.ru and others.

In addition to various services, some media are also included in the ARI registry. Recently, the list has been actively replenished by the media in the regions (fontanka.ru, doctorpiter.ru, ulpressa.ru, altapress.ru, sutynews.ru, tvernews.ru and others).

In mid-January, it was reported that a number of Yandex services were included in the list – Yandex.Taxi, Yandex.Food, Yandex.Lavka and Yandex.Micromobility.

Earlier, Roskomnadzor blocked the Scryptmail.com mail service due to the owner not providing the data necessary for the service to enter the ARI registry. The Tagansky Court in Moscow satisfied the ministry’s claim. According to RBC sources, the FSB’s interest in Scryptmail.com may be due to reports of false mining from email addresses with this domain.