It's possible for FSB and Roskomnadzor, but for rescuers it's not: what is bad about the law on geodata of lost people

Annually in Russia, according to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, about 120 thousand people disappear, of which about 45 thousand are children. About 60 thousand people are put on the wanted list. At the same time, up to a thousand people die annually in the forest or other hard-to-reach places. As a rule, not only employees of the Ministry of Emergency Situations and the police are engaged in the search for such people, but also volunteers, including those from the LisaAlert organization.

Messages about how this happens quite often appear in the Russian media and social networks. For example, volunteer "LizaAlert" Olga Vorobyova writes about one of such cases when they were looking for an elderly person who disappeared in the forest:

“…It's already the evening of the second day. There were a little more than ten people left, the rest went home. We realized that a little more, and we would have to curtail the search: at the moment we have done everything we could, we can only wait for evidence.

With these disappointing thoughts, I came to see what Yevgeny was doing. It turned out to be loading images for processing by the neural network. I sat down next to her, and together we began to look at the frames selected for her: here are our search engines, it’s just a well, there’s some kind of shadow... We open another picture with a mark, and I can hardly believe my eyes! A man is lying in a small clearing! Zoom in: the clothes do not match the description, but, of course, we understood that there could hardly be anyone else in this area. There is such a sign of hypothermia, which can be seen even in a photograph from the air - a person begins to take off his clothes. It seemed to us that grandfather had died...

I immediately called 112: “We see a man in the drone footage. The condition is unknown. We are waiting..."

I went up to my grandfather's wife, refined the clothes. Yes, he was wearing a striped T-shirt too. There was no doubt. I had to explain that I need to prepare now even for the worst outcome ... We send the foot group to the detection point, we are waiting. I hear Evgeny's scream, I run up to him. I already knew what he wanted to tell me. In the next picture, the position of the hands of the found one changes. At the time of filming, he was alive, it was only an hour and a half ago. It is difficult to describe what was happening at that moment in the headquarters. We froze in anticipation...

Literally 10 minutes later, a call comes from the guys: grandfather is alive! Not just alive, but conscious, talking !!! Now we need to do everything to get it out and hand it over to the doctors. Everyone else runs there to help with the evacuation. We warm it up, take it to the nearest village and give it to the doctors. We made it in time!..."

Activist Alexander Mikhailov writes about a similar case in his blog:

“Today is the hardest day in the past 365.

For almost two hours, from the dying phone for the second day, the voice of a man who will almost certainly die within the next few hours. He does not understand where he is, he cannot even get on all fours, he is shaking from the cold and instead of helping us, he simply begs to find him. We promise that we will find, but we ourselves understand that it is already impossible, and we continue to promise... There is no more fuel, no weather, darkness comes, it rains, and there is simply no longer any physical human strength to work in these modes and listen to how at the other end communication a person dies. But a miracle happened. It's already warm and you can swear at us, swear and at the end say: "For the first time in my life, so many people are engaged in me".

All the strength and nerves remained there.

We stayed where the WORLD'S BEST WORK is..."

It would seem that the services of search engines today have all the most modern means, including neural networks, and sensitive photographic equipment, and drones, and, of course, helicopters ... However, the most important thing is still missing: the state's recognition of the priority of human life over everything else. Yes, Putin finally signed into law a law that would allow the police to obtain from telecom operators the location of the missing citizens' mobile phones without a court order, to make it easier to find them. After all, as a rule, about 90% of those who disappeared at the time of disappearance have a mobile phone with them, which remains switched on for the first 2-3 days from the moment the search began. However, missing persons cannot make a call to 112 in remote locations due to lack of network coverage. And this circumstance condemns to death thousands of people every year who could have been saved. If, of course, human life was more important than economic feasibility and informational pseudo-security.

Here is what civic activist Grigory Sergeyev writes about this:

“Spoiler: you can follow you, and the operator will pay for it, but you cannot be saved, the operator will be ruined from this, but this is not certain, the deputies think so.

Today, the president signed a law that will allow operatives to request the location of the missing person without trial, or rather, before the trial. Principle: first we search, then we write to the court.

Great, only it will not give anything for our disappeared in the natural environment, and in most cases - and for urban searches.

We need a different law with amendments to the law on communication with an increase in the accuracy of the determination and with the possibility of using special technical means by rescuers, and not just by FSB officers.

So far we have not been able to get all this. Motivation - we are not a subject of operational search activity.

Another motivation is that telecom operators do not have funds for your wishes, these are all economically difficult changes.

All our amendments were in the State Duma as a verdict of the Public Chamber, where they went through the stage of public discussion, they were worked on in the commission created in the Ministry of Digital Security, where we belonged, but they are not in the adopted law, they were thrown out.

The committee on information policy was thrown out.

These same deputies are adopting amendments to the law "On Communications", which allow Roskomnadzor (Federal Service for Supervision in the Sphere of Telecom, Information Technologies and Mass Communications) to know where the subscriber is.

So, according to the bill adopted in all readings, telecom operators will be required to provide Roskomnadzor with information about subscribers and users connected to corporate tariffs, about the equipment they use, about the location of the base station to which their phone was connected, about the facts of receiving and transmitting voice information. messages, sounds, video with the date and time of their transmission or receipt.

That is, Roskomnadzor, which is not a subject of an independent reconnaissance patrol and will never save anyone, data, including your conversations, photos and sounds, can and should be, but we cannot do your location when you are in distress..."