The Russian telecom regulator Roskomnadzor announced today that Twitter has agreed to the transfer its Russian users’ data to Russian servers by mid-2018.
Twitter’s communications head Sinead McSweeney has informed Roskomnadzor that the company is currently “in the process of determining what information about Russian citizens and organizations in commercial relations with Twitter in Russia can be stored in the Russian Federation.”
Russia’s legislation on personal data, which came into force in September 2015, requires to store Russian citizens’ personal data only in servers located on Russia territory (see white paper by EWDN and EY).
Twitter is joining many Russian and foreign organizations — including Alibaba, Apple, Booking.com, eBay, Google and Uber — which have already transfered user data from foreign data centers to Russia, or announced ongoing projects to do so.
Some companies have failed to comply so far. Thus Roskomnador blocked access to LinkedIn last November.
