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It turned out that 39 applications out of 44 have at least one built-in track. 86% of trackers are owned by American companies, such as Google, Facebook and Microsoft.
About 88% of Russian state-owned apps transfer their users ' data to third parties. Most often, the information goes to the United States. Such research results are provided by the company "Infoculture".
It turned out that 39 applications out of 44 have at least one built — in tracker-a service that tracks user data and actions, and then transmits them to third-party companies. 86% of trackers are owned by American companies, such as Google, Facebook and Microsoft. And in the application "Services of the Republic of Tatarstan" (Republic of Tatarstan), we found a tracker of a Japanese company.
The study says that the application " My Documents.Online" contains 8 trackers, "Dobrodel" — 5, "Active citizen", "Park of Moscow", "Services RT" — 4 tracker "state Services of St. Petersburg" and "Moscow state service," "Our town", "Validation checks FNS of Russia, Ministry of internal Affairs of Russia" and "public Services" Ugra — 3 tracker.
According to the authors of the study, " the analysis of mobile applications created at the expense of budget funds should be the subject of attention of control, supervision and audit bodies, including in terms of checking the compliance of data collection and transmission practices with federal legislation."
Commenting on the results of the study, the representative of the Ministry of Finance said that tracking user actions using special services for this purpose is a common practice. And the actions taken to collect data are carried out in accordance with the requirements of information security.
"The decisions of the Ministry of Finance have serious protection and meet the requirements of the regulator in terms of information security. At the same time, the use of trackers is a standard practice, our applications have built-in push notifications, but, for example, it is impossible to implement “push” without the Google Firebase tracker. All user data in the e-government system is protected, privacy is preserved, " said the representative of the Ministry of Finance of Russia.
About 88% of Russian state-owned apps transfer their users ' data to third parties. Most often, the information goes to the United States. Such research results are provided by the company "Infoculture".
It turned out that 39 applications out of 44 have at least one built — in tracker-a service that tracks user data and actions, and then transmits them to third-party companies. 86% of trackers are owned by American companies, such as Google, Facebook and Microsoft. And in the application "Services of the Republic of Tatarstan" (Republic of Tatarstan), we found a tracker of a Japanese company.
The study says that the application " My Documents.Online" contains 8 trackers, "Dobrodel" — 5, "Active citizen", "Park of Moscow", "Services RT" — 4 tracker "state Services of St. Petersburg" and "Moscow state service," "Our town", "Validation checks FNS of Russia, Ministry of internal Affairs of Russia" and "public Services" Ugra — 3 tracker.
According to the authors of the study, " the analysis of mobile applications created at the expense of budget funds should be the subject of attention of control, supervision and audit bodies, including in terms of checking the compliance of data collection and transmission practices with federal legislation."
Commenting on the results of the study, the representative of the Ministry of Finance said that tracking user actions using special services for this purpose is a common practice. And the actions taken to collect data are carried out in accordance with the requirements of information security.
"The decisions of the Ministry of Finance have serious protection and meet the requirements of the regulator in terms of information security. At the same time, the use of trackers is a standard practice, our applications have built-in push notifications, but, for example, it is impossible to implement “push” without the Google Firebase tracker. All user data in the e-government system is protected, privacy is preserved, " said the representative of the Ministry of Finance of Russia.