Belarusian providers will store information about visited websites
An instruction on the procedure for forming and storing information about Internet resources visited by users of Internet services has been approved. This is stipulated by the Resolution of the Ministry of Communications and Informatization of Belarus No. 6 of February 18, which was officially published on the National Legal Internet Portal.
The document states that Internet service providers are obliged to form and store up-to-date information about Internet resources visited by users of Internet services using hardware and software complexes. Providers will store the following information about users, including individuals, including individual entrepreneurs: the number and date of the contract for the provision of telecommunication services; surname, first name, patronymic (if any); user's address or the address of the terminal subscriber equipment (terminal) installation; data allowing to determine (identify) the user of Internet services or their terminal subscriber equipment (terminal); MAC address or identification number of the terminal subscriber equipment (terminal) of a mobile cellular telecommunication Internet service user; for mobile cellular telecommunication network subscribers - details of the identity document (its name, series, number, date of issue, and the name of the state body that issued the document).
For legal entities, information will be stored on the number and date of the contract for the provision of telecommunication services; the name (firm name) of the legal entity, its legal address; the address of the terminal subscriber equipment (terminal) installation of the Internet service user; data allowing to determine (identify) the user of Internet services or their terminal subscriber equipment (terminal); MAC address or identification number of the terminal subscriber equipment (terminal) of a mobile cellular telecommunication Internet service user.
In addition, information will be stored on all telecommunication services activated by the internet service user, as well as the date, time of connection start and end, internal and external IP addresses and ports of the end subscriber device (terminal), the domain name or IP address and port of the internet resource visited by the internet service user, and the volume of transmitted and received data.
Internet service providers ensure the storage of up-to-date information on information resources visited by internet service users for one year from the date of provision of internet services.
The resolution comes into force on January 1, 2016.