According to a spokesman of the court’s press office, the Magistrates’ Court in Moscow fined Google 3 million rubles ($40,975) for refusing to localize its users’ data in Russia.
“According to the decision of the magistrate court of the Tagansky district of Moscow on the lawsuit of administrative wrongdoing under Part 8 of Art. 13.11 of the Administrative Offenses Code of the Russian Federation (‘Violation of Russian Federation legislation in the field of personal data,’ Google LLC has been sentenced to an administrative fine of 3 million rubles.”
This is the company’s first sanction for refusing to localize the datasets of Russian users …
