Twitch, UPS and Pinterest fined millions of rubles in Russia: what they did not please the invaders
June 29, 2022
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The Moscow court ruled in three cases at once. Russian propaganda publications are writing about it today. Details of the sentence As the so-called Russian “journalists” wrote, The
The Moscow court ruled in three cases at once. Russian propaganda publications are writing about it today.
Details of the sentence
As the so-called Russian “journalists” wrote, The reason for the fine is the refusal of Russian users to localize their data. Storing information in Russia, that is, on local servers without transferring it to foreign servers.
The fines are as follows:
UPS was fined 1 million rubles.
Twitch Interactive and Pinterest were each fined 2 million rubles.
In general, the article of this crime provides for a fine of 1 to 6 million rubles. In case of repeated violation, the amount of fine increases to 6-18 million.
At the end of May, Roskomnadzor also drew up protocols on Airbnb (fined 2 million rubles), Pinterest, Likeme, Twitch, Apple, UPS and Google for refusing to localize personal data of Russians, and this has already been repeated. Google protocol.
The Russian court also fined Google 7.22 billion rubles, which was forcibly collected by the bailiffs. Now companies are threatened with a new fine – again for not deleting information that is prohibited in Russia. In total, Roskomnadzor counted more than seven thousand “illegal materials” – texts, videos, pictures.
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