According to a report published last week by US publication Business Insider, a range of western tech firms are users of FindFace, a controversial face recognition technology developed by Russian startup NtechLab. FindFace matches faces against social media accounts, regardless of privacy rights, among other facial recognition capabilities. Its approach is similar to that developed by US …
A Russian court fined U.S. tech giants WhatsApp, Snapchat and Tinder on Thursday for refusing to store the personal data of Russian users inside the country, as stipulated by the demanding local legislation, U.S. company Meta, the owner of messaging service Whatsapp, was ordered by Moscow’s Tagansky District Court to pay 18 million rubles (nearly $300,000 at …
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A Moscow court on Thursday said it had fined Alphabet’s Google 15 million roubles ($260,000) for repeatedly failing to comply with a Russian law requiring technology companies to localise user data. Russia has issued multiple fines to foreign technology companies in recent years over a range of infringements, in what critics say is Moscow’s attempt …
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Yesterday SAP announced “further steps” to “support Ukraine” and “plan Russia exit.” As announced in late March, the global enterprise software giant is in the process of shutting down its cloud services in Russia. As part of this process, “we have given non-sanctioned companies in Russia the choice to have their data deleted, sent to them, or migrated …
IXcellerate, one of the most established data center company in Russia, has raised approximately some $190 million. The round — the largest ever in this field in the country — was led by sovereign wealth fund Mubadala (UAE) with participation from its Russian peer RDIF, SberInvest, and iXcellerate’s existing investors. Cited by Sber, the state-owned financial and digital …
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Darknet forums and Telegram channels have started selling databases containing the personal information of Russians who purchased fake COVID-19 vaccination certificates and forged PCR test results. Journalists at Kommersant spoke to one vendor who offered to sell them a database with 1,000 lines of information for $120. The file contained people’s passport numbers, insurance policy numbers, telephone …
Yandex plans to launch a cloud business in Germany next year, the company said ahead of its annual Yandex.Scale cloud conference in late September. The NASDAQ-listed Russian digital major is making an initial investment of $30 million until the end of 2022. The money will be used to purchase equipment and rent data centers. Yandex …
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The Institute for System Programming of the Russian Academy of Sciences (ISP RAS) and the Moscow State Institute for International Relations (MGIMO) have signed an agreement to jointly develop a platform for Big Data analysis in the field of international relations. This platform will be used by students and researchers to solve applied problems of Russia’s ministry …
In the latest move of a long saga, a Moscow court fined yesterday three US digital companies for violating the country’s personal data storage legislation. Facebook and Twitter were fined 15 million rubles (some $200,000 at the current exchange rate) and 17 million rubles ($230,000), respectively, for repeat infractions, while WhatsApp will have to pay 4 million …
Last week a Russian court fined Google’s local subsidiary 3 million rubles (around $41,000 at the current exchange rate) for violating Russia’s personal data storage law, reports TASS news agency. While the US digital giant had previously been fined for refusing to remove censored information and for abusing dominant position, it is the first fine …
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At the request of Russia’s censorship agency, Roskomnadzor, Moscow’s Tagansky District Court has banned the Telegram bot “Eye of God” for alleged illegal activity that violates privacy rights. According to Roskomnadzor’s claim, the Telegram bot, which searches online databases for people’s personal information, violates privacy rights “by accessing an indefinite circle of persons’ personal data …
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Last week Yandex, the Russian NASDAQ-listed digital tech giant, launched an online course on data labeling, presenting the initiative as a world’s first. This five-week course aims to teach “efficient and scalable data labeling for ML and various business processes” based on a crowdsourcing approach. Students are explained how to “split complex challenges into small tasks and distribute them among a …
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