Court Upholds Decision to Ban Linkedin in Russia
10 Novembre 2016 - 5:10PM
Dow Jones News
MOSCOW—A Moscow court upheld a decision to ban the professional
social network LinkedIn Corp. in Russia on Thursday, according to
news agencies, in a landmark ruling enforcing a personal data
law.
LinkedIn is the first foreign company to publicly clash with
Russia's communications regulator, Roskomnadzor, over the law,
which requires foreign and local companies to store personal data
of Russian users within the country's borders from Sept. 2015.
In early August, a lower court ruled in favor of Roskomnadzor,
saying that LinkedIn didn't comply with Russian law on two counts:
by not storing information about Russians on servers inside the
country, and by processing information about third parties who
aren't registered on the site and haven't signed the company's user
agreement.
In a statement Thursday Linkedin said: "The Russian court's
decision has the potential to deny access to LinkedIn for the
millions of members we have in Russia and the companies that use
LinkedIn to grow their businesses. We remain interested in a
meeting with Roskomnadzor to discuss their data localization
request."
Russia has repeatedly put off a showdown with a handful of
foreign technology companies, including Facebook Inc. and Twitter
Inc., who have resisted installing data centers on Russian soil
under the law.
Earlier in the week, Roskomnadzor's head Alexander Zharov said
that the agency wasn't singling out the U.S.-based company.
"We are planning to make [the dispute with LinkedIn] an
absolutely ordinary case," he said. "Since LinkedIn has ignored our
letters when we were inviting them to discuss the issue of personal
data localization; and after a few letters [we] were forced to go
to court," Mr. Zharov added.
Since the law came into effect last year, Roskomnadzor has
checked 1,500 companies to ensure they abide by the data
localization law.
"I'm not going to name the names of the companies since this is
to a large extent commercial information but major internet giants
are in the process of complying with the law," Mr. Zharov also
said, indicating that it may be time for major foreign companies to
yield to the regulator's pressure.
"It looks like this is truly a signal for all other companies
that Roskomnadzor is quite determined [to make companies comply
with the data localization law," said Evgeny Oreshin, a lawyer for
Goltsblat BLP, on Tuesday.
Write to Olga Razumovskaya at olga.razumovskaya@wsj.com and
Laura Mills at Laura.Mills@wsj.com
(END) Dow Jones Newswires
November 10, 2016 10:55 ET (15:55 GMT)
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