Head of the State Inspectorate for Control in the Sphere of Informatization and telecommunications of Uzbekistan Golibsher Ziyayev was relieved of his duties. As the country's government explained, the reason was that the restrictions on the work of social networks and messengers Telegram, Facebook, Odnoklassniki and YouTube were uncoordinated actions.
Earlier in Uzbekistan, legislation on the retention of users' personal data was tightened … Social networks that do not want to store data on Uzbek servers will be prosecuted by imposing fines and bans on their activities.
To make it more convincing, the Uzbek authorities have made changes to the country's criminal legislation: for example, the illegal collection and storage of information about citizens has introduced criminal liability in accordance with § 141-2 (violation of the Personal Data Act) of the Criminal Code of the Republic .