Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) has requested that the tech company Yandex allow continuous access to its smart home system and voice assistant, Alisa, as reported by independent media on Thursday, citing legal documents.

In June, a Moscow arbitration court imposed a fine of 10,000 rubles (approximately $1,200) on Yandex for its noncompliance with this demand. Rights advocates informed the investigative outlet Agentstvo that this seems to be the first publicly documented case of the FSB seeking access to Alisa, which operates similarly to Amazon’s Alexa.

Experts suggest that this situation illustrates how law enforcement agencies are broadly interpreting Russia’s anti-terrorism legislation, which mandates telecommunications and internet companies to retain users’ communications and provide them to security authorities upon receiving a court order.

The business publication Vedomosti noted that Yandex did not appear at the June hearing, resulting in the court finding the company guilty of failing to comply with the FSB’s request. An information security expert mentioned to Vedomosti that it is often more cost-effective for firms to pay relatively minor fines rather than share user information with governmental agencies, a process that can be quite expensive.

Previously, the same Moscow court had issued similar fines to Yandex for denying access to its geolocation service, private messages, and other data, as reported by the Telegram news channel Telecom Review.

Yandex has not publicly addressed any of the reported incidents. The company’s developers assert that Alisa only sends voice data to cloud servers when users activate it by saying “Yandex” or “Alisa.”