East-West Digital News reviews the most important developments on the Russian high-tech scene in 2015. Today’s story is about the main changes in the legal environment which affected foreign businesses. 1. Legislation on personal data storage Russia’s new legislation on personal data storage came into force on September 1. According to the new rules, only databases located in …
Yakutia is the coldest populated region in the world. Located in the northeastern part of Siberia, this semi-autonomous republic of the Russian Federation is home to the village of Oymyakon, a place known as the Pole of Cold that registers temperatures of -70 degrees Celsius. Permafrost covers a large part of Yakutia’s territory, and this is precisely …
Vladimir Putin has signed into law new legislation that fines Internet search engines 1 million rubles (almost $14,000) for refusing to delete hyperlinks to an individual’s personal information, if legally requested under Russia’s “right to be forgotten.” According to the new law, Internet search engines will be required to remove links to unverified information and …
The Internet Initiatives Development Fund (IIDF, or FRII in Russian), Russia’s largest seed and early stage venture fund, intends to invest 500 million rubles (approximately $7.7 million at the current exchange rate) in Big Data projects. FRII will support a few dozen projects, taking into account the needs of large Russian corporations, Russian business daily Vedomosti reported yesterday, …
The second-most popular instant-messaging app in Russia, Viber, has begun storing Russian users’ data on servers located in Russia, the company’s Moscow representative reportedly told the newspaper Izvestia. On September 1, a new law entered force in Russia requiring websites and businesses to store all citizens’ personal data on Russian servers. The legislation was initially supposed to …
Viber reportedly bows to Russian data-localization law, relocates user data to new servers Read More
Russia suffered the second-largest number of confidential data leaks in the first half of this year but company employees themselves are to blame for most of them, the Kommersant business daily reported Tuesday. The analysis center of InfoWatch, a Moscow-based online security company, said more than 262 million personal data records had been compromised as …
Russia’s online security second-worst in the world – Report Read More
Last week, the Russian telecom regulator blocked access to a website which it says failed to relocate data concerning Russian citizens to servers inside the country. According to a statement published on Roskomnadzor’s website, the data collected by Abonenty-chast2.pw includes full names, birthdates, home addresses, telephone numbers and work addresses of some 1.5 million Russians. The .pw domain extension corresponds …
Russia’s young commercial data center market reached some $167 million last year with a yearly growth of over 20%, according to a report by Moscow-based consultancy Direct INFO, as reported by Russia Beyond The Headlines (RBTH). Other consultancies (PMR and J’son & Partners) have put the figures at more than $300 million. The market is being …
Russia’s data center market to reach several hundred million USD in 2015 Read More
Starting from September 2015, the personal data of Russian citizens must be stored on servers located physically on the Russian territory. Adopted last year in a bid to affirm Russia’s digital sovereignty, this new law has provided many players with challenges due both to its demanding requirements and the ambiguity of some of its key provisions (see details in EWDN’s …
The Russian law on personal data storage will not apply to airlines and air ticket booking systems, the Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications has announced on its website. Adopted last year, the new legislation forbidding storage of Russian citizens’ personal data in foreign countries has posed new challenges to many companies – both foreign and domestic – which store their …
Russia exempts airline ticketing systems from personal data storage law Read More
Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed into law a controversial bill that allows citizens to demand that internet search engines remove links to personal information deemed “false” and “irrelevant,” as well as to that distributed in violation of the law. The law on the so-called “right to be forgotten,” signed by Putin on July 14, …
Russia will address Internet firms’ concerns about meeting a deadline to comply with a law forcing them to move the personal data of Russian citizens onto servers inside the country, a Kremlin spokesman said on Monday. Under a law last year, Internet sites that store the personal data of Russian citizens must do so on Russian …
Personal data storage law: Russian authorities might postpone Sept. 1 deadline Read More
