MOSCOW, Nov 17 (PRIME) -- The Russian communications service has added LinkedIn, a U.S. business and employment-oriented social network, to the register of violators of rights of personal data subjects and asked connection operators to block the resource on the country’s territory, the authority said on Thursday on its Web site.
“On the basis of the court’s decision, which came in force, social network LinkedIn has been included into the register...and indicated for blocking by operators,” the Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology, and Mass Media said.
On November 10, 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 the 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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