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Russian man sentenced to prison for reposting photographs on social network

May 18, 2016

Earlier this month a court in the western Russian city of Tver has sentenced a man to over two years in prison for reposting photographs on social network VKontakte, The Moscow Times has reported. Mechanical engineer Andrei Bubeev reposted material originally published by Russian journalist Boris Stomakhin. The editor of the monthly newspaper Radikalnaya Politika (Radical Politics), …

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“Cybercrime as a service:” Russian malware creator sentenced by US court

May 4, 2016

Earlier this week Nikita Kuzmin, a 28-year old Russian citizen who created the Gozi malware, was released from US prison after being sentenced in a federal court to time served (37 months). Kuzmin was also ordered to pay forfeiture and restitution in the amount of nearly $7 million. Kuzmin pled guilty to the computer intrusion and …

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Award-winning Russian face recognition technology used to harass young women and track pyromaniacs

September 29, 2020

A face recognition app called ‘FindFace‘ is sparking controversy in Russia over the destructive power of new technologies with regards to user privacy. Released in February by NtechLab, a startup established last year in Moscow, FindFace helps put names to faces on a picture. Combining facial recognition software with neural networks, the app will automatically match the image to people’s social media pages on Vkontakte, …

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VKontakte and Warner Music Group settle legal battle out of court

April 15, 2016

Last week VKontakte (VK.COM), the leading social network in Russia and a property of LSE-listed Mail.ru Group, announced the settlement of its legal battle with Warner Music Group (WMG) through a confidential out-of-court agreement. Under the agreement, VK users will be provided with legal access to WMG content though UMA, a Russian supplier of music content, and other authorized platforms. …

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Russian taxi drivers complain over Uber’s pressure on prices

March 2, 2017

On behalf of taxi drivers, the Federation of Russian Car Owners (FAR) has filed a complaint with Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev over the low prices dictated by taxi service aggregators, the RBC news agency reported Tuesday. The complaint by FAR said that the Federal Anti-Monopoly Service (FAS) had refused to initiate legal action against Uber, …

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Moscow man sues Yandex for publishing so much bad news his hair fell out

March 28, 2016

Bad news makes some people want to rip out their hair. But one Russian man claims reading it caused his to simply fall out. A Moscow resident, who says he’s suffering permanent stress and is losing his locks after reading too many negative news stories is suing Russia’s Yandex News for 1 million rubles (around $15,000). Roman Maslennikov argues …

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Yandex reveals the early results of the ‘right to be forgotten’

March 26, 2016

Since Russia’s new law on the “right to be forgotten” took effect on January 1, 2016, Yandex — Russia’s most popular Internet search engine — has received 3,600 takedown requests from 1,348 people. The company says it has complied with 27 percent of these requests, rejecting the rest. Yandex says its high rejection rate has …

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Samsung has acquired three patents from Russian developers to monitor life parameters

March 23, 2016

Earlier this month the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office published a patent application from Samsung that reveals that future Samsung portable and mobile devices may be used to monitor various parameters of an object. The patent filing reveals that Samsung acquired three of the patents behind this invention from Russian developers, reports Patently Mobile. Thus Samsung devices …

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Google loses anti-monopoly appeal in Russia over ‘obligatory’ pre-installation of Android apps

March 15, 2016

Google has been dealt a blow in its ongoing battle with European regulators — the Internet giant has lost its anti-monopoly appeal in Russia. The Moscow Arbitration court has upheld a previous ruling from the Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) that found Google had abused its dominant market position and broken anti-competition legislation. The crux of the complaint …

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Uber to limit Moscow service to licensed cars and share data with city authorities

March 2, 2017

Uber  has agreed to limit its service in Moscow to drivers with a transportation license, Bloomberg reported yesterday. The company said it will also share traffic data with city officials, as well as the number of drivers using the app each month. Moscow’s transportation department had previously planned to ask police and a judge to …

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Like, share, convict: Russian authorities target social media users

March 13, 2016

It was a throwaway comment, forgotten almost the minute it was written. Then again, Viktor Krasnov could hardly have predicted the trouble those three words —”God doesn’t exist” — would cause. He couldn’t have imagined that two VKontakte users would file a formal complaint to the authorities, claiming the comment “insulted” them; that police would show up at his apartment in the southern Russia …

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Russian blogger appeals to Strasbourg court over social media case

March 13, 2016

A Russian blogger has filed a complaint to the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, challenging the sentence he was handed for the republication of extremist texts online, the Kommersant newspaper reported Wednesday. Konstantin Zharinov, a blogger and activist from the Urals region of Chelyabinsk, was convicted in 2015 for sharing a post on …

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