The state Duma at plenary session on Tuesday adopted in the first reading the draft law on fines of up to 18 million rubles for violating operators of the requirements of storing personal data in Russia, authors of legislative proposals were made by the deputies of " United Russia ". The authors note that failure to comply with obligations under the localization database with the personal data creates a risk to the safety of Residents, the functioning of critical information infrastructure hinders the efficient battle against crime and extremism, which seek the adoption of incentive compliance with the legislation of penalties for such violations. "Therefore, it is proposed to set the penalty in case of first violation for legal entities in the amount from 2 to 6 million rubles, and the case of repeated discovery of the violation - 6 to 18 million rubles, which is comparable to the costs associated with the implementation of the established legislation requirements ", - is written in an explanatory paper to the document. "The legislation of individual responsibility for failure localization database was not provided. In the end, corporations have been fined on 3 thousand roubles under item 19. 7 of the administrative code for failure to provide information. So insignificant to major online organizations, the fine is clearly disproportionate to the offence and are not able to encourage compliance with Russian law, " - also noted in the document. in addition, the bill proposes to differentiate the size of the repeated fines depending on the degree of public danger and to establish significant amounts of punishment for violations related to the distribution or failure to take measures to prevent the spread of extremist content, as well as among them the operators of search engines. <span style="color:darkgray