The Team Ministry criticized the authorization proposal on biometry in the markets

“The introduction of these forms of identification and authentication will imply a significant financial burden on the business,” Kolesnikov said in the review. He also pointed out “the low persistent availability of the necessary technological solutions, the high cost of said authentication and the need to provide a safe connection to the SMEV system for electronic interaction between agencies.”

In addition, the vice president of the Ministry of the Economic Academy recalled that markets are already developing user protection mechanisms from fraud, and the proposed measure can limit the development of “other ways to counteract fraud.” As an alternative to the Ministry of Economic Crime, they proposed “to provide the stage of authentication” through a single biometric system (EBS); First it is necessary to set only the right of markets such opportunity to integrate and the obligation of the obligation to fix it not before 2028.

To implement this initiative, markets must be connected to the EBS, which will cost 60-100 million rubles, a source in a large IT company told Vdomosti. According to their estimates, authentication costs can reach 14.6 billion rubles a year.

Wildberries supports the need to protect the Russians from scammers, but they do not agree with the point that it refers to the market to provide biometry users in the realization of financial transactions, the market representative told Vdomosti. WB believes that this will lead to a significant expense for business.

In the Ozon and Yandex market, they refused to comment on the newspaper.

The obligation for sellers and buyers on online platforms is authorized through EBS, is provided by the bill, which was presented to the State’s Duma on February 15 and also offers other measures for combat scammers.