Moscow, Russia - Some 300 people took part in a meeting ‘In defense of rights and national sovereignty of Russia, against a draft law to be passed by State Duma concerning collection and use of individual personal information about all RF citizens’. The meeting was held at the monument to Karl Marx in Revolution Square in Moscow on Wednesday.
An Interfax correspondent reported that the participants carried church banners, icons and posters saying ‘No to biometry!’, ‘No to the Shenghen zone!’, ‘Social card of Muscovite is the seal of antichrist’, ‘Orthodox Christians against WTO’, ‘God, not code, is with us!’ ‘Microchip under your skin is a seal of antichrist’, etc.
Head of the ‘Christian Revival’ Union Vladimir Osipov said at the meeting: ‘We, citizens of Russia, are treated like criminals. Both they and us are subjected to forceful collecting personal data’.
‘Collecting individual personal information is something monstrous and unprecedented. No one explains why they collect data on our health, our marriage date, or where we keep our money’, Osipov added and noted that a personal code is ‘the key for access to electronic dossier on each one of us’.
He said further that the draft law is ‘a conspiracy against Russian people and all natives of Russia’ and insisted on calling to account the compilers of the document.