Russian Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technologies and Mass Communications (Roskomnadzor) initiated the procedure for the administrative proceedings against Facebook and Twitter social networks.
Case filed in connection with the failure to call the company requirements of Russian law with regard to the storage of user data. We are talking about the need for Russian localization of users' personal data on servers in Russia.
At the end of last year reported, that Facebook and Twitter have not yet been localized its user database in Russia. Roskomnadzor demanded to clarify the situation, but derived from the social networking answer did not satisfy the agency.
«company, control FB and Twitter social networks, We provided formal responses to our demands to confirm the location of personal data of users in Russian Russian. They do not contain any specifics about the actual execution of the legislation at the moment, or on the date of execution of this code in the future», - results "Kommersant" statements to the press service of Roskomnadzor.
