The head of Roskomnadzor discussed with representatives of Facebook the implementation of Russian laws

The head of Roskomnadzor, Alexander Zharov, met with the director of public policy Facebook in Scandinavia, Central and Eastern Europe and Russia Thomas Mirub Kristensen. This was reported by the press service of the department.

"The meeting discussed a wide range of issues of interaction between the company with the supervisory authority in the framework of the fulfillment of the requirements of Russian legislation, including the 242nd Federal Law entering into force on September 1, 2015 (on the localization of bases with personal data of Russians on servers located in Russia)," the report said.

On July 16, Zharov said that the Russian authorities will not transfer the entry into force of the law on the localization of personal data on Russian servers. "There was a discussion that it is necessary to slow down the law of the law, make it sleeping for a year. In this story, it is definitely necessary to put an end to," Zharov said. According to him, the law will enter into force in the appointed time, but "no fail or collapse for the industry will happen."

Samsung, Lenovo, AliExpress, Ebay, PayPal, Uber, Booking.com and other players began transferring data to Russia, Zharov said. However, according to him, such large companies as Facebook, Google and Apple are not yet engaged in the location of these Russians. Nevertheless, meetings with their representatives are held in Roskomnadzor, and “they think how the law will follow,” said the head of Roskomnadzor.

Zharov emphasized that the Facebook and Google do not appear in the list of checks before the end of the year. “In principle, they can work until the time of planned verification comes, or, for some reason, a decision on an unscheduled audit will not be made,” he said. Twitter does not process personal data, according to Roskomnadzor.