Roskomnadzor has sent the operators the requirement about blocking of LinkedIn in Russia and expects what social network will be completely blocked during the day. This is the first case of blocking Russia’s largest social network for violations of the law “On personal data”
Social network LinkedIn brought in the register of infringers of rights of personal data subjects, according to the website of Roskomnadzor. Operators requested about blocking social networks, the message. This is done on the basis of an enforceable court decision, the report says.
“the Actual stop of work of the resource will depend on the providers of Internet services. It is expected that the social network will be completely blocked in the course of the day”, — told RBC representative of Roskomnadzor Vadim Ampelonskiy.
“LinkedIn is committed to creating economic opportunity for workers around the world. We are beginning to receive reports from Russian users who can’t use his account in LinkedIn. The decision of Roskomnadzor to block the application closes the access to the website for our millions of users and companies from Russia, who use LinkedIn to grow your business. We remain interested in meeting with Roskomnadzor to discuss the issue of storage of personal data,” commented a lock company representative LinkedIn.
the Operators have already started a gradual shutdown of the social network. Press-Secretary of “VimpelCom” Anna imasheva told RBC that the process resource is started after the address appears in the register of Roskomnadzor. “According to our information, LinkedIn has already appeared in the register of Roskomnadzor, and in fact we have already started the lock. We expect that this will happen in the near future,” explained Aybasheva. Press Secretary of “AKADO” Svetlana Belykh told RBC that “at the moment, LinkedIn is blocked”. She also reported that the blocking process is fully automated. “We have special equipment, which in automatic mode is reported with the registry of banned sites, which is why we’re not in manual mode do. When the registry data, the system immediately blocks prohibited resource or page,” explained White. “The company “Megaphone” has executed the decision of Roskomnadzor ab out blocking LinkedIn”, — told RBC head of the press service of the company Julia Dorokhin.
the Tagansky district court of Moscow on August 4, admitted LinkedIn has violated the law “On personal data”, which obliges to store personal data of Russians in Russia. LinkedIn challenged this decision, but on 10 November the Moscow city court rejected the appeal of the company. As reported by RBC representative of Roskomnadzor Vadim Ampelonskiy, the right to block LinkedIn appeared at the office immediately after the decision of Moscow city court, but technically the process took some time.
According to TNS, in September, the LinkedIn audience in Russia in the cities with population more than 700 thousand inhabitants aged 12-64 years were 2.39 million users, only a network was 5 million accounts from Russia.
the Amendments to the law “On personal data”, which prohibits the storage of personal data of Russians abroad, came into force in September 2015, but LinkedIn became the first major blocked the social network. The representative of Roskomnadzor also said that data retention Russian users is not transferred to the country of social networks Twitter and Facebook. But, as was said Vadim Ampelonskiy, a lawsuit was filed against the business social network, due to multiple reports of a major leak of online personal data. In particular, in may 2016, the Internet was for sale login information to the accounts 117 million users.
a spokesman for LinkedIn said earlier RBC that the company wants to meet with a representative of Roskomnadzor, and to discuss the requirements of the service.
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