Anonymous people won't have access to Wi-Fi in Russia

Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev signed a decree banning anonymous internet connection in  restaurants, metro, parks and other places that offer Wi-Fi networks, on Friday.

With the entry into force of the law, all those who want to connect to a Wi-Fi will have to present an identity document. Moreover, the operators of these networks will have to keep for six years user information. Also, the hardware must be identified.
 
The new decree is in line with other restrictive measures imposed by Putin to internet as bloggers law, which known voices online are required to register with the government, by this measure the government creating leverage in order to see more easily where you are posting on the Internet, in order to avoid the emergence of new type phenomena as Navalny - the blogger who caused a sensation by publishing information about corruption in the Kremlin leaders.

And China, another country known for Internet censorship and inhuman punishment of dissidents, imposed restrictive rules these days for internet users. Chinese who want to use social media networks will be required to register with the government, using real names and to swear to "respect the socialist system."

The new measure will have impact on the 400 million users of social media. Twitter and Facebook are banned in China, where the government spent huge amounts of money to censor opinions on the internet and stop broadcasting any news about events that tarnish the reputation of the regime, such as the massacre of students in Tiananmen Square and the persecution of Falun Gong.

A similar package of laws prepares Romania. These so-called cyber surveillance law and the law of prepaid cards, legislation which seeks to monitor computers (in other words, the law establishes electronic search without a warrant), identification, most likely by presenting the card, those accessing Wi-Fi networks available in the public and restricted the sale of SIM card only.

Law prepaid cards was voted on July 2 in the Chamber of Deputies with 195 votes "for" and only 20 votes "against" and was challenged in the Constitutional Court by the Ombudsman, while cybersecurity law, adopted by the Government, is yet in the Chamber.