Tashkent, Uzbekistan, July 25
By Demir Azizov– Trend:
Uzbekistan’s Ministry for Development of Information Technologies and Communications has worked out a draft order “On making amendments to the rules of rendering services for data transmission network, including Internet”.
Internet providers should organize the record of used web resources of Internet (log files) and their storage within three months, according to the document.
The operators and providers should take hardware and technical measures for identifying the users when rendering services to them, said the document.
The users can be identified by their phone number or other registration data.
Currently, the number of Internet users in Uzbekistan is around 13 million.
Under Uzbekistan’s law, Internet providers and operators get access to the international information networks, including Internet only through the technical means of the monopoly national communications operator Uzbektelecom JSC and only legal entities serve as Internet providers and operators of the data transmission networks.
According to the amendments made to Uzbekistan’s Criminal Code in 2013, those engaged in creating, storing and distributing information reflecting all forms of terrorism, extremism, genocide and separatism should be held criminally responsible.