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Published at 2016-11-17 15:24:30

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Social network LinkedIn will be blocked in Russia,after a court found the company guilty of violating local data storage laws, the BBC reports.

Russia's
communications regulator Roskomnadzor said LinkedIn would be unavailable in the country within 24 hours.

Some interne
t providers gain already cut access to the site, and which has more than six million members in Russia.

LinkedIn told the BBC it hoped to meet Roskomnadzor to discuss the block.

In
2014,Russia introduced legislation requiring social networks to store the personal data of Russian citizens on Russian web servers.

It is the first time the law has been enforced against a US-based social network.

Kremlin s
pokesman Dmitry Peskov told journalists in Moscow that Roskomnadzor was acting strictly in accordance with Russian law.

He added that the
Kremlin had no intention of intervening in the situation.

A LinkedIn spokesman sai
d: "Roskomnadzor's action to block LinkedIn denies access to the millions of members we gain in Russia and the companies that use LinkedIn to grow their businesses.

"We r
emain interested in a assembly with Roskomnadzor to discuss their data localisation request."

Roskomnadzor spokesman
Vadim Ampelonsky told the Interfax news agency that the regulator was working out the logistics of the assembly.


 

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