Authorities may use the voices of deceased people in the public interest

The plugin was developed by the Alliance for Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the National Federation of the Music Industry (NFMI).

For use in the state or public interest, consent will not be required in cases where a person’s voice has been recorded for money or in public places, the document says.

The main idea of ​​the document is to create the possibility of protecting voice rights by analogy with the right to protect an image. Currently, civil law does not protect artists and broadcasters from using their voices without their consent; The law will provide that opportunity.

From the point of view of legislation, biometrics and personal data, the preparation of such a bill is an appropriate initiative, believes Igor Bederov, head of the research department at T.Hunter, an expert in the NTI SafeNet.

Currently, the most popular fraudulent scheme using voice synthesis involves sending generated voice recordings to the victim to convince them to transfer money to the attackers, recalled Ivan Lindberg, CEO of Datananny and market expert at NTI SafeNet. Basically, examples of fraud using synthesized voice are associated with areas where it is possible to identify a person by voice.

So far, the bill does not provide penalties for misuse of voice recordings. However, there is another bill prepared by the head of the State Duma Committee on Labor, Social Policy and Veterans Affairs Yaroslav Nilov (LDPR). Provides for sanctions for the illegal use of an image or voice, as well as biometric data of citizens. The document was also not presented to the State Duma.