Google removes from Russia engineers

The company Google has decided to withdraw from the RF engineering services despite the increase of finansowania 2015. Informants attribute this to the law on the storage of individual data.

The American company Google, which owns a similar search engine, decided to withdraw from the RF engineering and technical services. Similar steps the firm is taking in the other States, including Norvegia, Sweden and Finland.

Control Google plans to offer 50 engineers working in Moscow, to continue perebazirovano abroad. With this decision relate the introduction of a new law requiring foreign firms to store information about Russian users on the local server, said TASS referring to Bloomberg. As stated in the Department's public relations firm, "We are deeply committed to our Russian users and buyers. For them in Russia employs a dedicated team of our professionals)".

In early June of 2014, President Vladimir Putin signed a law requiring to place individual data on domestic users in areas of Russia. The law should go into effect from September 1, 2016.

As prescribed in the law, "when collecting personal data, even with the help of information and telecommunication of the global network, the operator must ensure the recording, systematization, accumulation, storage, specification (update, change) removing the personal data of the people of the Russian Federation with the use of databases, which is on the areas of the Russian Federation". This forces the firm or to establish infrastructure in the Russian Federation, or completely remove working here engineers in other Nations, as expects to do Google.

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