The administration Russians popular instant messaging in Viber placed Russia their servers with the personal data of citizens. «We have moved the server, as required by law. In Russia will be stored phone numbers, logins and passwords. Messages We do not store, they are on users’ devices », – told” Izvestia » Moscow representative of Viber Media Elena Grachev .
The company’s lawyers are confident that the messengers fall under the new requirements, and therefore it was decided to transfer the data of the Russians. Although the volume of the Russian audience in the messenger for certain is unknown, the results of opinion polls indicate that Viber is a popular WhatsApp, and smartphones, this program is only inferior to the popularity of browsers and the most popular accessory in Russia, the client social network “VKontakte”.
According to Director of the Russian Association of Electronic Communications Sergei Plugotarenko , adopted by the administration of Viber decision is the result of active development of the Russian market and prospects: «As far as I can tell, most of the messengers, involving registration of user accounts, contact them by email or mobile number, photography and geopozitsiey user, and especially – with his bank details must make an effort to locate the database with personal data of Russian Internet users in Russia ».
Viber is not the first major player who has transferred data of Russian customers in local data centers: the recently announced similar actions on the Korean Samsung, some American companies are also subject to the law.
Earlier, the head of Roskomnadzor Alexander Zharov said that Google is also ready to meet the requirements, but a source tells the publication that the information is untrue. Google really placed in the Russian server, but for one of the local projects. Now the company’s refusal to speculate about the Russian market, assured sources: «Google is to observe, how to perform the above-mentioned law, and only then make a decision» . The search giant has already closed the Russian research and development center, and within the framework of “optimization” has refused, and from the office in St. Petersburg.
Recall, according to the new requirements, will create a ‘register of infringers of personal data “, where will include online resources, violating the requirement to store information about the personal data of Russians on servers located in Russia. Those who fall into the registry, can be blocked by a decision of Roskomnadzor. Previously, the agency says it can block any site at all (eg, Facebook), or service. Legislative tools for this, but take the time to lock, no one will.
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