LinkedIn Blocked By Russian Government (pcworld.com)

Posted by msmash on Thursday November 17, 2016 @06:45AM from the get-out-of-here dept.

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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Lucky them by Anonymous Coward · 2016-11-17 06:49 · Score: 1, Insightful

Vlad is 'da man!
Russian privacy laws by JustAnotherOldGuy · 2016-11-17 07:01 · Score: 2, Insightful

"Russian privacy laws", lol
The Russian privacy law is "you have no privacy".

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1. Re: Russian privacy laws by gti_guy · 2016-11-17 07:24 · Score: 3, Insightful
  
  And this differs from the US/UK privacy laws how?