As blocking looms, LinkedIn wants to meet with Russian service

MOSCOW, Nov 11 (PRIME) -- LinkedIn, a U.S. business and employment-oriented social network, wants to meet with the Russian communications service, which earlier initiated court proceedings and won blocking of the resource, the authority’s press secretary Vadim Ampelonsky said Friday.

“We’ve received a letter from them with a request to meet. The letter is being studied by high officials of the Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology, and Mass Media,” Ampelonsky said.

On Thursday, the Moscow City Court sided with a lower court’s decision to block LinkedIn for breaking the law obliging Internet companies to store personal data of citizens on the country’s territory. Web sites of perpetrators are included in a special register and can be later blocked.

LinkedIn had more than 400 million users worldwide as of the end of 2015, including 5 million in Russia.

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