Google began to issue user data to the Russian authorities more often

In 2016, the share of Google satisfied with Russian security forces to provide personal data of users. This is evidenced by the annual report on the availability of services and data posted on the company's website.

According to the report, from January to December 2016, the security forces asked Google to provide user data 471 times. At the same time, in the first half of the year, from January to July, the share of requests for which any data was provided was seven percent, in the second half of the year, from July to November-already 15 percent. In 2015, the Russian authorities turned to Google with a request to disclose users 464 times. The company provided any data in five percent of cases in the first half of the year and in seven percent in the second.

The Internet giant publishes statistics about the share of satisfied requests of the authorities of different countries to disclose user data, starting in July 2010, the number of requests for each half-year will be published since January 2011. Google states that the publication of such statistics aims to cause a discussion about the permissible boundaries of the legal regulation of the Internet.

In April 2015, it became known that Google began to transfer the personal data of Russian users to the server in Russian data centers.

In September 2015, Roskomnadzor said that they could not check the implementation of the Google of Russian Law on Personal Data, since the Russian office of the company performs only marketing functions.

On April 19, the head of Roskomnadzor, Alexander Zharov, said that the leadership of the Twitter social network agreed until mid -2018 to transfer the data of Russian users of the service to the server in Russia. At the same time, it has not yet been determined exactly what data from the social networks will be stored in Russia.

On April 8, Roskomnadzor, under the pretext of "user data protection" blocked in Russia a popular Internet for smartphones Zello . Officials issued the service administrations a technically impossible data to transfer data. The Internet stroke was actively used by the participants in the strike of truckers.

On April 4, it was reported that the Rambler holding began transfer to the Russian jurisdiction of the Living Journal. LJ servers were transferred to Russia in December 2016.

On November 17, Roskomnadzor introduced personal data violators and blocked the Linkedin social network. The decision to block the social network for the refusal to transfer data from users to the territory of Russia previously adopted the Tagansky District Court of Moscow and the Moscow City Court. This was the first case of blocking a large social network in Russia.

The law on personal data requires to store information about Russian citizens in Russia. In the initial edition, the law signed by Vladimir Putin in July 2014 entered into force on September 1, 2016. However, later this period was shifted a year in advance , despite the negative reaction of the business community.