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MINSK, 18 October (BelTA) – An offsite session of the Culture, Information, Tourism, and Sport Commission of the Interparliamentary Assembly of the Commonwealth of Independent States took place in Dushanbe, Tajikistan. During the session CIS parliamentarians discussed and approved a draft of the model law designed to regulate electronic communications in the environment of digital media resources. The document covers the operation of platforms that act as instant messengers and sources of publicly available information at the same time, the press service of the Secretariat of the CIS IPA Council told BelTA.
The commission’s session took place at the Academy of Public Administration under the President of the Republic of Tajikistan. Parliamentarians from Azerbaijan, Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Uzbekistan, and Tajikistan took part in it.
The parliamentarians discussed and approved a draft of the model law designed to regulate electronic communications in the environment of digital media resources. The document regulates ways of sharing information via digital means. It looks into the use of technologies that can create deep fakes and fake news. Apart from that, the developers point out methods for protecting the information that is available only to certain users, for instance, subscribers. The core idea is to determine what information is publicly available and what information is protected as communication between individuals.
As examples the model law mentions group chats, private channels, and other ways of sharing information between members of a family, between friends, and between employees of one organization.
Participants of the session decided to ask the CIS IPA Council to add the bill to the agenda of the next plenary session of the CIS IPA. Once the model law is passed by the assembly, it will be forwarded to the national parliaments of the Commonwealth of Independent States.
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