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Russia: Police Requests Data of Users Who Commented on Secret E-surveillance Unit Rumors

Written byAlexey Sidorenko
Posted 19 May 2011 19:33 GMT

On April 17th, 2011 Yevgeniy Roizman, Yekaterinburg-based politician, wrote [ru] that police creates secret “I-departments,” new police units that will collect data on Internet users. After local news site URA.ru republished [ru] his post and some users started to mock the idea, the website administrators received an official police request [ru] to provide IP-addresses on the commenters. Police denied the rumor. URA.ru is currently inaccessible.

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