Management of the trendy messaging service Viber has decided to move servers with personal data of people in the Russian Federation. Consequently, the company leads the work in compliance with the law, which came into force in September.
"We moved the servers, as the law requires. In Russia will be kept of the number of telephones, logins and passwords of users. Messages we do not store, they are in user devices", - quotes the newspaper "Izvestia" adept Viber Media in the Russian Federation Elena Grachev.
Taking into account the opinion of lawyers of the firm, the mobile messengers in addition fall under a law requiring to store personal data of Russian citizens on the territory of the Russian Federation. As a us newspaper reports, in the current year Roskomnadzor not to check Facebook, Twitter, Google, Samsung, and other online services for compliance with this law. The audit will begin in 2016.
Remember that which came from 1 September the law requires to store personal data of Russian citizens on the ground of the Russian Federation. The websites of offenders on the basis of a court decision will be made by Roskomnadzor in a specialized registry, and in case of failure to eliminate the infringement will be blocked. The law also provides that Roskomnadzor will conduct audit firms for compliance with the law, and in case of identification of violations to provide the instruction about necessity of its destruction that will be limited to six months. By a court decision on the violator also may be the penalty.
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