Roskomnadzor, Russia's telecommunications watchdog, announced today that it has instituted administrative proceedings against Facebook and Twitter because of their refusal to move the data of Russian users on servers located inside the country's borders.
"These companies did not provide information on meeting the requirements for localizing the databases of Russian users of the corresponding social networks on servers located in the Russian Federation, as provided for in part 5 of Article 18 of the Law on Personal Data No. 152-ФЗ," the Roskomnadzor
stated today.
"Administrative proceedings were instituted on the grounds of an administrative offense in accordance with part 8 of article 13.11 of Administrative Code of the Russian Federation, which provides for an administrative fine in the amount of 1 million to 6 million rubles." [$16,000 to $94,000]
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