Senator Ruslan Gattarova failed to make American Internet companies to comply with Russian legislation on personal data protection. Roscomnadzor verifying user agreement Twitter and Apple, came to the conclusion that their relationship with users are governed by U.S. laws.
Roscomnadzor examination conducted user agreements Twitter and Apple and found no formal contradictions Russian legislation in the field of personal data protection. It yesterday told journalists service representative Vadim Ampelonsky. According to him, no Twitter, no Apple does not have offices in Russia and the relationship between companies and users are governed by the laws of the State of California (USA). At the same time the United States had not ratified the Council of Europe convention N108 “On the Protection of Individuals with regard to Automatic Processing of Personal Data”, which means that the requirements of this agreement are not binding on them, said Mr. Ampelonsky. He added that the Russians voluntarily accept his proposed conditions themselves send abroad their personal data. Meanwhile Roscomnadzor deals with major Internet companies from the United States on the subject of unification user agreements with the Russian legislation.
issue with verification of user agreements for compliance with Russian laws arose after this summer received temporary asylum in the Russian ex-CIA analyst and National Security Agency (NSA), USA Edward Snowden told the media about the secret NSA program called PRISM. PRISM allows you to download sensitive information from servers largest U.S. Internet companies. Among Internet giants cooperating with the secret police, were named Google, Yahoo!, Microsoft, Facebook, AOL, Skype, Apple and PalTalk. Later, some of them said that the recovery of data occurs without their knowledge.
This theme picked up the head of the Federation Council Committee on Information Society Development Gattarov Ruslan, who said that the personal data of Russian citizens using the Internet services and products of U.S. companies, including Microsoft, Google, Facebook, Apple , Twitter, Yahoo!, are not adequately protected. Senator repeatedly initiated discussion of this problem not only at the site of the Federation Council, but the Council of Europe, which in late October admitted his claims substantiated. In November, Mr. Gattarov pointed out that it had achieved a response from Microsoft, Google and Facebook (yesterday joined the list, and Twitter), but the claim still ignore Apple and Yahoo!.
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