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Activist sues Moscow city for implementing facial recognition technology in public cameras

October 8, 2019

Moscow activist Alyona Popova has submitted a lawsuit asking for the city’s implementation of facial recognition technology to be declared illegal. Sarkis Darbinyan, an attorney for the free speech group Roskomsvoboda who is representing Popova in court, notified Vedomosti, a major Russian daily, of the lawsuit. Popova is arguing that processing biometric data without receiving written permission from the …

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Russia considers introducing new Google tax

October 9, 2019

The Russian government is stepping-up its plans to introduce new taxes on tech giants like Facebook, Apple and Google. The government’s draft budget plan, published last week by the Finance Ministry, highlights “significant shortcomings in the principles of how digital companies are taxed [which] lead to the fact that the effective rate of tax paid …

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Russian hacker pleads guilty in massive consumer data theft in the USA

September 25, 2019

A Russian hacker has admitted to his participation in one of the largest thefts of consumer data from U.S. financial institutions, brokerage firms, and other companies, the US Justice Department says. Manhattan US Attorney Geoffrey S. Berman said Andrei Tyurin pleaded guilty to computer intrusion, wire fraud, bank fraud, and illegal online gambling offenses, the …

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Calvey case: Charges are falling apart

September 20, 2019

The charges against Baring Vostok executives could fall apart as investigators have re-appraised the value of shares of a bank which was central to the case. These shares were handed over by Baring Vostok to Vostochny Bank as part of a loan repayment; and their value was, in reality, many times higher than the amount …

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Russian authorities bet on new equipment to enforce ban on Telegram

September 16, 2019

In the Siberian region of Tyumen, mobile operators are about to test special equipment to enforce the authorities’ ban on Telegram. As reported by Reuters, cited by the Russian media, this equipment has been provided by Roskomnadzor, the state telecom and Internet regulator.  The tests are to be conducted this month in real conditions, the …

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Baring Vostok executive Philippe Delpal moved from prison to house arrest

August 17, 2019

Yesterday a Russian court ordered to transfer French citizen Philippe Delpal to house arrest after six months spent in pre-trial detention. The decision took place just days before Russian president Vladimir Putin’s visit to France, where he is expected to meet his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron. In early April Baring Vostok’s founder, the US citizen …

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Global air ticket booking systems required to comply with Russian personal data localization law by 2021

August 16, 2019

Starting from October 31, 2021, the personal data of Russian citizens who book domestic flight tickets will have to be stored on servers located physically on Russian soil. This new requirement stems from a decree signed in late July by Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev in application of a 2014 law on personal data storage in …

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Behind the Kremlin’s new offensive against the Internet economy

August 14, 2019

In recent months, Russian authorities took a variety of measures targeting the Internet economy, presenting them as efforts to combat terrorism or restore the country’s digital sovereignty. However, behind these initiatives lies “a union of bureaucrats and security agents, the business aspirations of state capitalists, and the Russian authorities’ desire to control the Internet,” writes …

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Russian military puts soldiers in jail for using smartphones and social media

August 7, 2019

Since March 2019, Russian military service members have been banned from using smartphones and posting photos taken on the job to social media. The new regulations were proposed in September of 2018, and Russia’s State Duma and Federation Council approved them the following February. After the new law received President Vladimir Putin’s approval as well …

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A new blow to investors’ confidence: Russian draft bill targets foreign ownership of Internet resources

September 2, 2019

This past Friday Russian lawmaker Anton Gorelkin submitted to the State Duma, the lower house of parliament, a bill targeting “significant [online] information resources” with the capacity of “collecting information on [Russian] users.”   Should their foreign ownership exceed 20%, such “information resources” will not be allowed to conduct advertising activities in Russia – an implicit way …

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Russian censor cites Google for including banned content in search results

July 6, 2019

Roskomnadzor, the Russian Internet and telecom regulator, has submitted an administrative protocol citing Google for censoring its search results in Russia insufficiently. The news agency Interfax cited Roskomnadzor as saying that its most recent test of the search engine in May indicated that “more than a third of the links included in the unified registry …

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How federal censors monitor and punish Russia’s mass media

June 12, 2019

The arrest of Ivan Golunov under drug trafficking charges on June 6 triggered a flurry of emotion in the Russian media and social scene. Many see in the case a manipulation to intimidate or punish an independent-minded journalist and its employer, the Riga-based online publication Meduza, whose investigations often target behind-the-scene interests in the Russian …

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