Russian's new personal data law has raised many questions about privacy of the internet users.
The new law was signed by Russian President Vladimir Putin in December 2014 and outlined that companies supplying Internet services in Russia, or targeting Russian users, should store personal data in Russia. Those who didn’t should have transferred it onto Russian territory by Sept. 1, 2015.
Critics of the new law speculated that its sole purpose was to extend the government’s control over society by closely monitoring popular social networks, but the lawmakers insisted their only intention was to protect Russian citizens.
While some companies — such as Samsung, Booking.com, PayPal, eBay, Lenovo and AliExpress — expressed readiness to comply with the new rules, U.S. Internet giants Facebook and Google aren’t in a rush to do so.
The new law will never be implemented, Russian Internet personality Anton Nosik claimed in his blog on Monday, because it doesn’t specify how government agencies will determine which data belongs to Russian citizens and which doesn’t.
Via: [The Moscow Times]
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