Russia Blocks LinkedIn

Last Friday, Russia blocked LinkedIn based on a Russian court’s finding that LinkedIn violated Russian “localization” law that requires companies holding personal data of Russian citizens to store it on servers located within Russian borders.  This law came as an amendment to Russian data privacy laws, “Regarding information, information technologies and the protection of information,” “Regarding telecommunications,” and the Codex of Administrative Violations. The amendments, which came into law in September 2015, required websites and telecommunications providers to begin storing “on the territory of the Russian Federation information regarding the receipt, transfer, sending and/or processing of voice information, written text, images, sounds or other electronic messages of the users of Internet,” within six months after the law went into effect.

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