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
Just two months before the new Russian law on personal data storage will come into effect, many international players are implementing the necessary steps to comply with it. Thus last month Booking.com announced that all data from its Russian users will soon be transfered to a local data center. Preceding Booking.com were such companies as eBay, Google, PayPal, …
Global players challenged by new Russian law on personal data storage Read More
Earlier this month, Booking.com announced that it will comply with Russia’s new law on personal data storage. The global online travel operator will soon transfer all data from the country’s users to a local data center, Russian business daily Kommersant reported. The announcement came after a meeting between Steffen Mueller, Booking.com’s senior manager of infrastructure and …
Selectel, a major commercial data center operator in Russia, has just launched the “Virtual Private Cloud” (VPC) — an offer that it says is new in Russia but inspired by the models of Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Rackspace. “The VPC isn’t private in the traditional sense that it belongs to one client, but it’s …
Over the past few weeks, AliExpress has multiplied initiatives to strengthen its leadership on the Russian e-commerce scene. The Chinese giant has teamed up with Russian online bank Tinkoff Bank to launch a co-branded loyalty program. Associated with MasterCard credit and debit cards, this program is the first of its kind in the world, said …
Russia’s state-controlled telecommunications company Rostelecom informed the government that Google Inc. has moved some servers to Russia to comply with a controversial law requiring Internet companies to store Russians’ personal data within the country’s borders, a person familiar with the matter said Friday. Following a meeting in late March with the communications ministry, a Rostelecom representative who attended the meeting said that …
eBay has become the first US company to say it will comply with the new Russian legislation requiring businesses to store Russian users’ personal data in Russia, business daily Kommersant reported earlier this week. Vladimir Dolgov, eBay’s general manager in Russia, met with a deputy head of telecom regulator Roskomnadzor last week to clarify “a series of questions” related to the law.
From September 1, 2015, companies operating in Russia will be required to store their users’ or clients’ personal data on servers located physically on Russian territory. A white paper released by East-West Digital News, in partnership with EY and leading market players, sheds full light on the legal and organizational aspects of the matter.
Last week, the lower house of the Russian parliament adopted amendments making personal data storage on domestic servers mandatory as early as September 2015 – instead of September 2016 as previously foreseen by legislation adopted this past summer. In October, Russian lawmakers had considered an even earlier deadline (January 1, 2015). However, the period allowed for compliance …
Personal data storage on Russian servers will be mandatory starting from September 2015 Read More
Last month, the lower house of the Russian parliament discussed new amendments to make personal data storage on domestic servers mandatory as early as January 2015 – instead of 2016 as previously foreseen by new legislation adopted this past summer. Those amendments were adopted in their first and second readings. The period allowed for compliance …
Lawmakers drop Jan. 1 deadline for mandatory personal data storage on Russian servers Read More
Some foreign players panicked last week when they learned about the new rules adopted by the Russian parliament regarding the collection and storage of personal data – which will be allowed only on Russian territory starting from Sept. 2016. Concerns were fuelled by inflated media reports, including a Google Translate-based article that appeared on an …
Western Internet companies operating in Russia and Russian Internet giants and media companies are the targets of investigation and potential new legislation on personal data. The committee for information policy of the Council of the Federation – the upper house of the Russian Parliament – has been investigating whether user agreements of major Internet sites …
