Russian service says LinkedIn unready to fix breaches to come back

MOSCOW, Mar 7 (PRIME) -- U.S. professional social network LinkedIn has notified the Russian communications service that it is unready to mend law violations to resume its operations in the country, where it was blocked in November 2016, the authority said on Tuesday in a statement.

“The Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology and Mass Media has received a letter from Vice President for Global Public Policy at LinkedIn Pablo Chavez. The letter read that the company is not ready to fix breaches of the Russian law,” the service said.

LinkedIn’s refusal to keep bases with personal data of Russians on the country’s territory confirms the lack of the company’s interest to work on the local market, as the law obliges Internet companies to do, the watchdog said.

The authority added LinkedIn to the register of forbidden information on November 17 and asked connection operators to block it, the first case of muting one of the biggest social networks in the country.

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