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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Instead of de facto segmentation, de jure

[HBI]

The Internet is segmenting, whether we like it or not. China, Russia, Middle Eastern countries...the list goes on. Hell, Western nations are now firewalling themselves. Might as well do it in an organized and advantageous way to the West rather than watching it fragment piece by piece. A well chosen segmentation plan would hamper foreign intelligence gathering and criminal activity.

The open network dream is dead. Let's accept it and move on.

Makes sense.

[grub]

Now that they've hired Trump, they no longer need to see his profile.

If only we could do the same

[Patent Lover]

This is one of the few good reasons to move to Russia.

phrased questionably

[s.petry]

Your phrasing shows the fragmentation from Countries like Russia and China, but omits regulations and requirements put forth by the EU as a whole and many other independent countries after it was revealed that the US was snooping on everyone all the time (including our allies). This includes the UK, Canada, Australia, and obviously more. Many of the Countries within the EU want tighter restrictions, forcing ISPs to house data for the German Government and people in Germany. Though this is not currently EU law there is pressure to go this way.

Some information is certainly worth being able to be shared with the world, but some data is not. Security experts have been saying this for decades.

If LinkedIn wanted to do business in Russia I'm sure they could lease data center space and house Russian PII information in Russia as they have been requested to do. If you are in the UK, would you want your data housed in China? How about Iran? I'm sure you could get a great deal on DC costs there, but it's not worth the risk to most.

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.

Re: Russian privacy laws

[gti_guy]

And this differs from the US/UK privacy laws how?