A Moscow court fined the hotel booking service Hotels.com 6 million rubles for refusing to locate the personal data of Russians. This was reported on the Telegram channel “Moscow Courts of General Jurisdiction”.
The company was found guilty of committing an administrative offense under section 9 of Art. 13.11 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (repeated failure by the operator, when collecting personal data, to ensure the registration, storage or retrieval of personal data of citizens of the Russian Federation using databases located on the territory of Russia).
Hotels.com first received a fine for refusing to localize the data of Russian citizens in the summer of 2022. Then its amount was 1 million rubles.
The company offers booking services and has 85 thematic websites operating in 354 languages.
In February 2022, Hotels.com, even before the start of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict and the introduction of sanctions, planned to leave Russia. Experts then said that the reason could be the “landing law.”
Author:
Natalia Gormaleva
Source: RB
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