Putin signed a law giving the Russian Federal Security Service the right to take measures to protect the personal data of "protected persons". According to the official wording, henceforth the processing of the data of "protected persons" is carried out with their consent and with the consent of the state security bodies. Earlier, an employee of the Anti-Corruption Fund, Georgiy Alburov, suggested that such an initiative of the authorities followed in response to the fund's investigations of illegal enrichment of Russia's top officials.

According to independent experts, thanks to the new law, "protected persons" will not be able to disclose information about their property, including foreign property, as well as bank accounts. Earlier, the chairman of the State Duma Committee on Security and Counteracting Corruption Vasily Piskarev noted that granting the FSO the right to protect the personal data of protected individuals and their families does not close access to information about their property and income.

In addition to concealing the personal data of FSO officials, the new law is entitled to "temporarily restrict or prohibit the movement of vehicles and pedestrians on the routes by which protected persons pass," "use airports, aerodromes" and other sites free of charge, And navigation ".

In October 2015, the government commission on legislation supported a similar draft law proposed by the Russian FSB. It proposed "to classify data on owners of real estate, aircraft and ships". The authors of the draft in the explanatory note expressed concern that the information from the Unified State Register of Rights to Real Estate is publicly available and anyone can ask for it.

In their opinion, this information can be used for criminal or compromising purposes.

Extracts from the EGRP often use in their investigations the Anti-Corruption Fund of Alexey Navalny. They were featured in the film "The Seagulls" (about the business of the children of the Prosecutor General of Russia), in the investigation of the data on the possible corruption of the Russian President's Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov and the "He's not Dimon" research concerning the Prime Minister and ex-President of Russia Dmitry Medvedev.