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Russia Demands LinkedIn App Takedown, Apple and Google Comply (fortune.com)

Posted by msmash on from the yes-sir-my-sir dept.

Russia has forced Apple and Google to remove the LinkedIn mobile app from their Russian application markets, the latest chapter in a months-long campaign against the professional networking site. From a report on Fortune: A recently-passed Russian law requires that any company holding data on Russians house that data within Russia. Russia began blocking LinkedIn's website last November under that law, which some critics argue is an indirect form of censorship. The removal of the LinkedIn app from Apples App Store and Google's Play shows the willingness of major internet gatekeepers to comply with individual nations' data-control laws, on both the web and mobile devices.

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  1. Lessons re-learned by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Just another reason Free Software is still relevant in the era of the app store.

  2. Re:Russia is not the only company to require this. by unrtst · · Score: 4, Informative

    The EU laws are similar, but different. They apply to companies with a presence in the EU, and protect the personal information of their citizens (data may not leave the country without dealing with more red tape). The RU law requires that the data be written to a server in Russia first, but the data may then leave the country - it protects their ability to access that data, rather than protecting the data. The impact is similar, but the differences are quite important.
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