LinkedIn Blocked By Russian Government (pcworld.com)

LinkedIn's network just got a little smaller: Russia's communications regulator ordered ISPs to block access to the business networking company on Thursday. From a report on PCWorld: Roskomnadzor made the order after a Moscow appeal court last week upheld an earlier ruling that LinkedIn breached Russian privacy laws. Tagansky district court ruled against LinkedIn on Aug. 4, following a complaint from the Russian federal service for the supervision of communications, information technology and mass media that its activities breached a law requiring businesses handling Russians' personal data to process that data in Russia. Roskomnadzor said it filed suit after LinkedIn failed to respond to two requests for information about its plans for relocating the data to Russia. LinkedIn isn't the only U.S. company that has been targeted under the legislation.

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Re:Lucky them

[Anonymous Coward]

For Pete's sake, the short for Vladimir is Volodya or Vova. Vlad is short for Vladislav. Completely different name. You might as well shorten Obama to Dick.

Re:phrased questionably

[s.petry]

Not only are you not a lawyer (I am not either), but you refused to read the Russian Law brought into question with the LinkedIn ban which explicitly states that data on Russian people must be housed inside of Russia. In fact if you read the article you would see this law articulated in exactly that way. You don't have to be a lawyer, you simply have to spend a few minutes of time to read.

You then flat out lie (intentional or otherwise) about the EU law which absolutely applies to companies outside of the EU. US Companies must house data inside the EU and all data handling must be compliant with both EU and local laws regarding data handling.

Your opinion is of no value, thanks for playing.