The court fined two foreign companies for refusing to localize the data of Russians

In Moscow, the magistrate court fined the cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase and the international association AIDA International for refusing to localize the data of Russians in the Russian Federation. This was reported in court. The amount of punishment was 1 million rubles.

The decision was made at court site No. 422 of the Tagansky district of Moscow. Coinbase and AIDA International were found guilty of an administrative offense under Part 8 of Art. 13.11 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation (failure by the operator, when collecting personal data, to ensure the recording, systematization, accumulation, and storage of data of citizens of the Russian Federation). Fines imposed in the amount of 1 million rubles. – minimum for this article. Companies were threatened with amounts of up to 6 million rubles. each.

In mid-October, the Magistrate Court of the Tagansky District of Moscow fined video communication service Zoom for 15 million rubles. for repeated refusal to localize the data of Russian users on the territory of the Russian Federation. At the end of August for 50,000 rubles. Telegram messenger was also fined. Earlier trial fined for refusing to localize data from Spotify, Apple, WhatsApp, Match Group (owns Tinder), Airbnb, Google, Twitch, Pinterest, etc.

At the end of May, Roskomnadzor obliged foreign services to localize databases of Russian users in the Russian Federation by July 1. According to information TASSthe storage of personal data of Russians was localized by about 600 representative offices of foreign companies in the Russian Federation.