{"id":21348,"date":"2013-01-17T13:26:21","date_gmt":"2013-01-17T12:26:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rt.com\/sport\/data-sochi-reasons-database-196\/"},"modified":"2013-01-17T13:26:21","modified_gmt":"2013-01-17T12:26:21","slug":"personal-data-needed-in-exchange-for-sochi-tickets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/personal-data-needed-in-exchange-for-sochi-tickets\/","title":{"rendered":"Personal data needed in exchange for Sochi tickets"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/rt.com\/files\/sport\/data-sochi-reasons-database-196\/httpwwwsochi2014com-screenshot-499.n.jpg\" width=\"370\" height=\"277\" alt=\"screenshot from http:\/\/www.sochi2014.com\"\/><\/p>\n<p id=\"VideoDescription\" class=\"grey mv10\">screenshot from http:\/\/www.sochi2014.com<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Before buying tickets to the Sochi Winter Olympics fans will have to give their personal details to the Russian authorities for security reasons, the organizing committee head says.<\/p>\n<p>In order to obtain a so-called spectator pass the Olympic guests will need to log their info with a new national database, the state ID, containing the owner\u2019s passport information and even bank details, the R-Sport news agency reports.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cA person who wants to buy a ticket will be requested to voluntarily register on the database. It\u2019s confirmation that he is a well-behaved fan. He joins a sort of Sochi 2014 fan club,\u201d<\/em> the source quotes the head of the organizing committee Dmitry Chernyshenko.<\/p>\n<p>However, \u2018voluntary\u2019 to Chernyshenko means Olympic access denial for those, who refused to register.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cIt\u2019s similar to accreditation for sporting competitions. You don\u2019t have to view this as a policing measure,\u201d<\/em> Chernyshenko stressed adding that this is all done for security reasons.<\/p>\n<p>It is yet to be known how foreigners&#8217; data would be used, or whether it would be added to the government database.<\/p>\n<p>The first such cards were issued earlier this month and will be compulsory from the start of next year.<\/p>\n<p>For obvious reasons the initiative has been met with criticism by some of the Russian civil liberties activists.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pixel.quantserve.com\/pixel\/p-89EKCgBk8MZdE.gif\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/rt.com\/files\/sport\/data-sochi-reasons-database-196\/httpwwwsochi2014com-screenshot-499.n.jpg\" width=\"370\" height=\"277\" alt=\"screenshot from http:\/\/www.sochi2014.com\"\/><\/p>\n<p>screenshot from http:\/\/www.sochi2014.com<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Before buying tickets to the Sochi Winter Olympics fans will have to give their personal details to the Russian authorities for security reasons, the organizing committee head says.<\/p>\n<p>In order to obtain a so-called spectator pass the Olympic guests will need to log their info with a new national database, the state ID, containing the owner&rsquo;s passport information and even bank details, the R-Sport news agency reports.<\/p>\n<p><em>&ldquo;A person who wants to buy a ticket will be requested to voluntarily register on the database. It&rsquo;s confirmation that he is a well-behaved fan. He joins a sort of Sochi 2014 fan club,&rdquo;<\/em> the source quotes the head of the organizing committee Dmitry Chernyshenko.<\/p>\n<p>However, &lsquo;voluntary&rsquo; to Chernyshenko means Olympic access denial for those, who refused to register.<\/p>\n<p><em>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s similar to accreditation for sporting competitions. You don&rsquo;t have to view this as a policing measure,&rdquo;<\/em> Chernyshenko stressed adding that this is all done for security reasons.<\/p>\n<p>It is yet to be known how foreigners&#8217; data would be used, or whether it would be added to the government database.<\/p>\n<p>The first such cards were issued earlier this month and will be compulsory from the start of next year.<\/p>\n<p>For obvious reasons the initiative has been met with criticism by some of the Russian civil liberties activists.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pixel.quantserve.com\/pixel\/p-89EKCgBk8MZdE.gif\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1213,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-21348","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-breaking-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1213"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21348\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}