Roskomnadzor blocked the Linkedin social network

Today, November 17, Roskomnadzor made a social network of professional contacts LinkedIn to the register of violators of the rights of personal data subjects and sent an indication of its blocking to operators.

The message about this is published on the website of Roskomnadzor . “On August 4, the Tagansky District Court of Moscow satisfied the lawsuit of Roskomnadzor against the LinkedIn social network in defense of the rights of an unlimited circle of persons - personal data subjects. On November 10, the Moscow City Court upheld the decision of the court of first instance, ”the report said.

Roskomnadzor demanded that LinkedIn transfer servers to store personal data of Russian users to the Russian Federation in accordance with the Law “On Personal Data” that entered into force on September 1, 2015, as well as change the user agreement so that the personal data of Russian users could not be transferred without their knowledge to third parties.

In the social network, more than 400 million users from 200 countries are registered to search and establish business contacts LinkedIn . Since June 2016, the social network website has been owned by Microsoft , which bought it for $ 26.2 billion.

As Medusa notes, LinkedIn became the first largest social network blocked in Russia under the law on the transfer of personal data of Russians to the territory of the Russian Federation.

PS LinkedIn’s blocking was commented by the press secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov.

“The Russian agency acts strictly in accordance with the law and the relevant companies also require compliance with Russian laws and rules that were introduced in accordance with these laws,” Peskov quotes Interfax quoted.