Kazakhstanis will be held accountable for using someone else's electronic digital signature (EDS), the press service of the MCRIAP reports . The new rules came into force on March 13.

Now the period for bringing to administrative responsibility has been increased from two months to one year from the date of commission. For violation of the legislation on personal data and their protection, the amount of administrative fines will be increased up to three times (Article 79 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). Previously, fines ranged from 10 to 1,000 MCI depending on the composition of the offense and the category of the business entity. Now they will be from 30 to 2,000 MCI (from 117,690 tenge to 7.8 million tenge).

A new type of administrative offence for violation of the legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan on electronic documents and digital signatures under Article 640 of the Code of Administrative Offences will also come into force. Thus, administrative liability will be provided for the use of digital signatures by another person. Previously, administrative liability was provided only for the illegal transfer of the digital signature key to third parties and the failure of the owner of the registration certificate to take measures to protect it. After the amendments come into force, both the person who transferred the digital signature and the person who used it will be held liable.

The measures taken are aimed at strengthening the protection of personal data of citizens, ensuring the security of using digital signatures and reducing the number of fraudulent actions related to digital signatures, as well as increasing liability for violations in the field of information technology.

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