Retrofitting of imported cars for 1 million rubles, increased fines for illegal collection of biometric data – the main thing May 19

World

• The UK will ban the import of Russian diamonds and aluminum. British authorities have imposed sanctions on 86 individuals and companies associated with the Russian military-industrial complex.

Russia

• In Russia, the fine for collecting biometric data without the consent of citizens will be multiplied by five. The bill on administrative sanction for placing such data in the Unified Biometric System (UBS) received the support of the Cabinet.

Business

• Wildberries opened the first logistics center in Uzbekistan, launching direct sales from local entrepreneurs. The sorting center began to work in the Tashkent region.

• Yandex’s parent company, Yandex NV, registered in the Netherlands, received offers from Vladimir Potanin and Vagit Alekperov to buy a majority stake, Bloomberg has learned.

• Startup Andrey Golman and Egor Pavalyaev InTone raised $1.7 million from Yellow Rocks!, A.Partners and business angels. The money will be used to expand the project.
• The Russian clothing and footwear manufacturer Gloria Jeans is launching a project to enter the main markets of the world. Sales are scheduled to start this year at the Kaspi site in Kazakhstan, Kommersant learns.

• The “Remit” meat processing plant will produce sausages under the “Toblerone” brand. The company filed a trademark registration application with Rospatent. In the “Remit” he clarified that the product will be triangular, not round. Previously, Remit filed a CabernetSvignon trademark application for a federal chain of liquor stores.

Transport

• The modernization of cars supplied by parallel imports from hot countries will cost at least 1 million rubles. But without this, the machines will be of little use in Russia, Izvestia reported.
• The founder of the Expocar ​​startup launched an online dealership with direct deliveries from the factories. The project has already signed a contract with Tesla and plans to sell it in Russia, the United Arab Emirates and Kyrgyzstan. The customer can choose a machine through a 3D configurator and select a complete set according to his needs.

Services and technologies

• Yandex has added the ability for users of the Masterpiece application to subscribe to each other’s updates. At Masterroom, users have been testing their own Yandex neural network since April to generate images based on text queries.

• Google will start looking for typos and address bar errors and suggest fixes. The functionality will be rolled out in the coming months. New options will also appear on Google Maps, now the map will show if it is possible to reach the institution in a wheelchair. The update is designed to increase inclusion and make the use of services comfortable for people with disabilities.

• “White” hackers found 34 low and medium severity vulnerabilities on the Gosuslug portal. Since February, more than eight thousand people have participated in the bug bounty program of the Ministry of Digital Development. The maximum payment for errors found was 350,000 rubles, and the minimum was 10,000 rubles. The sponsor was Rostelecom.