Messenger Slack warned Russian users about suspending work within 30 days and has already removed the Russian Federation from the list of countries from which they can pay for services.
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Due to US sanctions, corporate messenger Slack will suspend accounts of users from Russia. The courier’s clients began to receive the corresponding letters. The problem was reported to RIA Novosti.
“Unfortunately, due to applicable law, we are forced to suspend your account and will do so within 30 days,” Slack said in a statement.
The messenger estimates that the account is based in Russia and is primarily used within the country. It does not matter in which country the Slack license was purchased. As the editor of RB.RU was convinced, the messenger has already excluded Russia from the number of countries from which it accepts payments for tariff plans. It is not specified how customers will recover money spent on Slack services.
At the same time, it is still possible to create a test account, but not to pay.
On June 12, the United States announced new sanctions against Russians in the technological field, which will take effect on September 12.
- Slack began disabling users in Russia in March 2022, but not everyone. Thus, the company sought to take into account both international sanctions and the policies of the parent company Salesforce.
- In May 2023, Slack was found to be secretly collecting private messages, files, and customer data to train its artificial intelligence tools. Users automatically subscribed to such data collection without knowing it.
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Ekaterina Strukova
Source: RB
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