Roskomnadzor Facebook is being blocked the law on personal data – RBC

The head of the press service of Roskomnadzor Ampelonsky Vadim said that Facebook, Twitter and Google are missing in terms of checks on implementation of the law on personal data in 2015, so the question of their blocking is not necessary. This he said in an interview with radio station “Kommersant FM».

«Purely legally Facebook can block in Russia, as well as any other site. Legislative instruments for that. The question is not placed so that if they do not outsource data storage in Russia, then we will close, and in 2015 just will not put “, – he explained Ampelonsky.

He also spoke about last Tuesday’s meeting between the Facebook Thomas Christenson head of Roskomnadzor Alexander Zharov.

« information about that Facebook refuses to comply Requirements 242nd Federal Law on the storage of personal data, which comes into force on 1 September, this meeting is not exactly sounded. Facebook asked questions about the provisions of the law and its mechanisms. All of this information was provided by », – said the official representative of the media regulator.

Following the meeting, the representative of the Facebook has promised to soon announce the official position of the company, said Ampelonsky.

Previously, the newspaper “Vedomosti” reported that Facebook for reasons of economic rationality does not consider it necessary to store personal data of users from Russia on Russian servers.

On Friday Roskomnadzor introduced in the register of banned sites Portal Last.fm.

«Music portal Last.fm included in the list of banned sites based on the decision of the district court, which recognized the song posted on the website of the” Psyche “extremist material that is prohibited on the territory of the Russian Federation», – Ampelonsky said earlier told Tass.

Earlier in August Roskomnadzor issued another resonant decision making in the register of banned sites one of the articles “Wikipedia”. Because of the technical features of the work encyclopedia blocking one of its pages would result in blocking the entire site. Later, however, the media regulator ruled address article from the list.