National consultation website runs code written by Russian technology company
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Budapest, April 9 (MTI) – A website set up for Hungary’s latest national consultation – a survey of citizens on a range of issues – meets strict legal requirements, the Government Information Centre said on Sunday, after some opposition parties called for a probe of the way the site manages user data.
News portal 444.hu said earlier that the national consultation website runs code written by Russian technology company Yandex to compile user statistics. It added that “in 2011, it was revealed that the company shares data with the Russian secret service”.
The Government Information Centre said users’ personal data and the opinions they voice using the site are kept strictly separate and cannot be linked. The website’s analytical tools serve to increase efficiency, it added.
The centre acknowledged that one of these analytical tools “could provide an opportunity for malevolent misinterpretation”, thus the developer was instructed to disable it.