Viber Messenger servers moved to the territory of Russia – Lenta.ru

Messenger Viber posted in Russian servers with personal data of citizens in accordance with the new law, which came into force in September. This “Izvestia” said the Moscow representative of the company Viber Media Elena Grachev.

«In Russia will be stored phone numbers, logins and passwords. We do not store messages, they are at the users’ devices, “- she specified. According to the company’s lawyers, messengers also fall under the law, which obliges store personal data of Russians on servers located in the country.

According to the publication, this year Roskomnadzor will not check Facebook, Twitter, Google, Samsung and other Internet services for compliance with this law. Inspections will begin in 2016.

17:15 September 1, 2015

September 10 the newspaper “Kommersant” reported that Apple has under the law of the localization of citizens’ personal data entered into an agreement Rental data center in Russia. The total storage capacity reached about 700 racks. Beginning whether the US company transferred the data to the Russian server was not specified.

In the summer of 2015 to the beginning of the transfer of personal data of Russian consumers for the country said Google, Aliexpress, Ebay (and owned by online auction payment system PayPal), online booking system Booking.com and taxi service Uber. In particular, Booking.com also leases storage capacity from IXcellerate.

The amendments to the law “On personal data” and “On Information, Information Technologies and Information Protection” entered into force on 1 September 2015. The new rules require the operator to record, systematization, accumulation, storage, updating, retrieval of personal data of citizens of Russia with the use of bases in the territory of the country.

The resources companies, whose policies of storage and processing of such information does not comply with the new requirements of the legislation will be introduced by Roskomnadzor in a special register in the future may be blocked by a court decision. In July 2015, Russian President Vladimir Putin instructed to consider easing regulations amendments.