The Moscow Court of First Instance fined Google 15 million rubles for repeatedly refusing to locate the personal data of Russian users in Russia, TASS reports.
The company was fined under section 9 of art. 13.11 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation (repeated failure by the operator to ensure registration, systematization, accumulation, storage or retrieval of personal data of citizens of the Russian Federation).
This is the second time that the company has been sanctioned under this article. For the first time, an American corporation was fined for refusing to locate Russians’ personal data in June 2022; then the amount also amounted to 15 million rubles.
For refusing to localize data in Russia, Russian courts have already fined WhatsApp, Twitter, Facebook (part of Meta, recognized as an extremist organization and banned in the Russian Federation), Zoom and other companies.
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Source: RB
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