Roskomnadzor blocked the Linkedin social network

Roskomnadzor included LinkedIn social network in the register of personal data violators and sent the demands to block access to it to Russian operators. This was reported on the website of the department. Thus, LinkedIn became the first of the largest social networks blocked in Russia.

The requirement was sent on the basis of a decision of the Tagansky District Court of Moscow of August 4, which was confirmed by the Moscow City Court on November 10. The decision was made at the lawsuit of the RKN, which insisted that the social network was conducting the collection and transfer of these Russians with a violation of "human and freedoms of a person and citizen, including the right to inviolability of his private life, personal and family secrets." The agency referred to the new version of the law on personal data, which obliges foreign Internet companies to place servers with personal data of Russians in Russia.

Representatives of LinkedIn objected that there were no violations, since users "voluntarily provided their personal data to expand personal contacts." However, the courts of the first and second instances rejected these arguments.

LinkedIn is the world's largest social network to establish business contacts and search for work. As of 2015, the total number of registered network participants exceeded 400 million people; The Russian segment accounted for 5 million registrations. In August of this year, the LinkedIn audience in Russia amounted to 2.6 million users.