The head of the department, Andrey Lipov, believes that the institution of consents to the processing of personal data is extremely outdated. "It was probably effective at the dawn of the emergence of the 152nd Federal Law on the processing of personal data, when it left the content of the consent to the discretion of the citizen and the company where the person came and which asks him to sign such consent," the head of Roskomnadzor believes.
According to him, over time the number of consents has increased so much that a person is unable to control them, and it is difficult to defend their rights when doubts arise about the legality of these consents.
Instead, the department proposes to establish clear norms for each industry—what data can be collected, how to store it, and to whom to transfer it.
Lipov reported that Roskomnadzor sent the relevant proposals to the government to include them in the second package of measures to combat fraud, which will be considered in the autumn session. The head of Roskomnadzor also said that at the government level, with the involvement of industry representatives, the creation of an institute of special personal data operators is being discussed.