Russia upgrades rules for its digital spy system to better track citizens online

Russia has spent decades building one of the world’s most sophisticated digital surveillance systems. Now, the Kremlin is taking steps to make it faster, more automated and better integrated across the country’s internet infrastructure.

Known as SORM, the platform gives Russia’s security and intelligence agencies access to telephone calls, internet traffic and other electronic communications passing through domestic networks.

New regulations published by Russia’s Ministry of Digital Development at the end of May updated the technical standards governing SORM, formally known as the System for Operative Investigative Activities.

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