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Data leak affects thousands of wealthy Moscow residents

November 6, 2018

Thousands of wealthy Moscow residents who subscribed to a regional Internet provider have had personal data including names, home addresses and mobile numbers posted online. People affected by the data leak are all clients of Moscow-based internet provider Akado Telecom, a large telecommunications network owned by billionaire businessman Viktor Vekselberg, which said it had opened an …

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Russian startup found out how to measure the impact of online communications on offline sales

September 13, 2018

It has been difficult so far to assess the efficiency of online advertising to drive offline purchases. In the absence of precise tools, advertisers and agencies can rely only on conventional online metrics such as click-through-rate, which do not tell much about what happens after the users left their screens. Segmento, a programmatic platform based …

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Supreme Court rejects Telegram’s appeal over FSB’s demands to access users messages

August 10, 2018

The Russian Supreme Court has upheld demands from the Federal Security Service (FSB) that Telegram provide encryption keys to access the content of user messages, the Interfax news agency reported this morning. Confirmed previous legal decisions, the Supreme Court, in particular, has supported an FSB argument which establishes a distinction between receiving the means to decipher encoded content, and …

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From illegitimate data-sharing to tracking “interest in treason:” Facebook’s handling of private data raises concerns in Russia

August 8, 2018

Roskomnadzor, the Russian telecom and Internet regulator, has requested Facebook to provide explanations about its past data-sharing partnerships with at least 60 mobile device makers, including Apple, BlackBerry, Microsoft and Samsung. As reported last week by the business daily Kommersant, Roskomnadzor’s move followed a request from the Association of Professional Social Media and Messengers Users (APPSIM in Russian) …

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US senator worries that Mail.ru might be the next ‘Cambridge Analytica scandal’

July 12, 2018

Until 2015, several applications developed for Facebook by third-party companies had access to personal information shared by users and their friends. The apps could see names, genders, birth dates, places of birth, photos, and “liked” posts and pages. One of the businesses that collaborated with Facebook like this was the Russian company Mail.ru [part of …

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‘Big Brother law’ comes into force: Internet companies required to store massive amounts of content

July 3, 2018

New provisions of a controversial law on Internet communications came into force on July 1, with a government order requiring Internet companies to store the content and the metadata of all their users’ communications for a significant period of time Adopted in 2016, this new legislation (dubbed ‘Yarovaya law’ or ‘Big Brother law’) has entailed huge costs for …

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Sistema VC teams up with Alibaba Group to invest in US-based Big Data startup

May 31, 2018

Sistema VC, the venture arm of the Russian conglomerate Sistema, has taken part in a $26.4 million Series B round for SQream, a New York-headquartered startup offering a GPU database “for fast, scalable SQL analytics.” Announced on May 30, the round was led by Alibaba Group with participation from existing and new investors including Hanaco …

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Telegram’s blockchain project closer to launch with encrypted user identifcation feature

May 10, 2018

After completing an oversubscribed ICO, Telegram is internally testing and planning to launch soon a feature of its future Blockchain platform, the Telegram Open Network (TON). As reported by the Russian business daily Vedomosti, this feature, “Telegram Passport,” is meant to identify users based on a copy of their ID document, driver license, bank account …

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Why Russia is banning Telegram: FSB concerned by cryptocurrency project, not message encryption

April 20, 2018

The official reason for banning Telegram in Russia – its refusal to let the secret service decipher user messages, as required by Russian law, to “prevent terrorism” – might not be the real one. Revealed today by the Russian business daily RBC, an informal note written by an employee of the Federal Security Service (FSB), …

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Russian authorities order messaging apps to hide cooperation with law enforcement

February 6, 2018

Messaging services in Russia have been banned from disclosing any cooperation with law enforcement agencies, according to a new government decree issued last month. The decree orders messengers to “ensure the non-disclosure of any information regarding specific facts and contents” when cooperating with the authorities, as reported by The Moscow Times. The messengers are also required …

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Telegram challenges Russian court decision over ‘Big Brother law’

October 26, 2017

The instant messenger Telegram has formally challenged a fine imposed for refusing to obey orders from the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) to surrender the encryption keys it uses to protect its users’ communications. Telegram was fined by a Moscow district court on October 16. After the ruling takes effect, Roskomnadzor, the Russian telecom and Internet regulator, will have legal grounds to block …

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Russian Internet regulator threatens to block Facebook for non-compliance with personal data storage law

September 27, 2017

Will Facebook be banned in Russia? This might happen next year, warned Roskomnadzor’s head Alexander Zharov yesterday, should the social network still fail to comply with the local legislation on personal data storage. “The law is mandatory for everyone. Either we will [have it] applied or the company will stop operating in Russia,” the RIA …

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