The upper house of the Russian parliament will ask NSA-leaker Edward Snowden to assist in a probe of how Internet companies allow third parties to access user data.
“We want to find out from Snowden how this leaking of personal data happens. It's time to start working out measures to protect private information on the national and international level,” said Senator Ruslan Gattarov, head of the parliamentary commission on privacy rights, according to the Christian Science Monitor. “I don't think he'll have to break any obligations or commitments to tell us what he knows.”
The Senator emphasized that this has nothing to do with their governmental relations with the U.S. or any other country.
“We're not interested in relationships between governments or struggles between security agencies. We have no questions about what the NSA is getting up to,” Gattarov said. “This is about the security of personal information; it concerns tens of millions of people in Russia and billions around the world.”
This probe is part of a larger effort by the Russian government to improve its electronic security at the country becomes increasingly digitized.
Meanwhile, Snowden’s Russian lawyer Anatoly Kucherena said that Snowden’s father has been invited to Russia to visit with his son to discuss his next steps.
Lon Snowden reportedly needed the invitation in order to obtain a visa, the Times of India reports.
Kucherena said Snowden is looking forward to seeing his father and that “they will decide together all the questions” on where he will live and what he will do.
Snowden’s current location is unknown. He was granted temporary asylum in Russia last week.
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