Roskomnadzor said that the use of VPN services threatens to compromise personal data. This is specified expression social media services.
“There are discussions on social networks about videos with social advertising about the risks of using VPN services. According to the Communications Law, ways to circumvent illegal content blocking are considered a threat as they create conditions for illegal activity.
It is stated that VPN services can give users a “false idea of their own anonymity on the Internet”. According to the department, scammers can endanger users with information obtained using VPN services.
In December last year, Maksut Shadayev, head of the Ministry of Digital Development, said that VPN services in Russia are “not taking root”. According to him, the number of Russians using services to bypass the blocking has decreased. Shadayev claimed that the number of VPN users in Russia had returned to the “March-April level” of 2022.