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Russia Opens Cases Against Google, other Foreign Tech Over Data Storage (reuters.com) 51

Posted by msmash from the how-about-that dept.
Russia's communications regulator Roskomnadzor said on Friday it had opened administrative cases against Alphabet's Google and six other foreign technology companies for alleged violations of personal data legislation. From a report: Moscow has clashed with Big Tech over content, censorship, data and local representation in a simmering dispute that has erupted into a full-on information battle since Russia sent tens of thousands of troops into Ukraine on Feb. 24. Russia fined Google 3 million roubles ($46,540) last year for not storing the personal data of Russian users in databases on Russian territory, and on Friday said it had opened a new case over what it called Google's repeated failure to comply with Russian legislation.
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  • Does anyone give a shit? (Score:5, Insightful)

    by RightSaidFred99 ( 874576 ) on Friday May 27, 2022 @03:00PM (#62571014)
    What's Russia going to do to enforce it, send 30 drunk soldiers on a 1983 Toyota truck held together with zip ties and vodka residue to collect it?

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by Z00L00K ( 682162 )

      They'll send a Satan-2 missile to the US east coast.

      • Re: (Score:2, Insightful)

        by RightSaidFred99 ( 874576 )
        Good luck with that. If they want to end 40% of all human life on the planet, and 90% of all Russian life they can go with that plan I guess. Bold, I will give them that.

        • Re: (Score:2, Insightful)

          by Z00L00K ( 682162 )

          I wouldn't be surprised if that happened given how much Russia acts like Orcs now.

          • I wouldn't be surprised if that happened given how much Russia acts like Orcs now.

            Hopefully sooner than later if they do. The views from the ISS will be awesome as Russia incinerates.

        • Re: (Score:3)

          by slazzy ( 864185 )
          Seeing how their current war in Russia is going, they don't seem to value human life much.

      • Re: (Score:1, Offtopic)

        by dstwins ( 167742 )
        Wasn't that Trump?

        And killing 80% of life on earth (because there will be a response) isn't going to get them their money.. Every good extortion person knows you have to "bleed" the victim a little.. if you go straight to murdering the family, you don't get anything and the victim has very little/nothing to left to loose so very little inventive to corporate.

        Did someone skip how to extort class?

      • uh huh, a missile they've tested thus far by launching and having it go 12 kilometers. We're shaking in our boots over here.

        Do Russian nuclear weapons even get maintained any more? The electronics. plastics, seals, tritium that turns into bomb poisoning after a few years... be embarrassing to have only a core with poisoned boosting go off over here and take out a block or few, would mostly piss us off. Or land in the mostly uninhabited half of the USA, you'll piss off the environazis if you harm some d

        • Re: (Score:3, Insightful)

          by Darinbob ( 1142669 )

          Well, in some sense, Putin is Hitler 2.0. What's missing is that Hitler got his missles to work.

          No really, compare the two men. Both come to a rise in power after the population is highly demoralized with a crating democracy (from the post-WWI reparations, or from the collapse of USSR). Both got there with some blood to start with; both immediately sieze control of the engines of government one in power; both reduce the civil rights of its citizens and exert total control over the media to create a propa

          • Amazingly true. "Crimea" is Putler's "Danzig". Germans were trying until the last moments of August 1939 to negotiate the Danzig corridor, HItler was mad the UK sent a relatively low level diplomat to argue, then like Putin he threw a hissy fit and deviously attacked with no attempt at real diplomacy. Actually Ribbentrop was more skilled than Lavrov and Pesky Peskov.

            "Der Ruscists sind unser Ungluck"

            • but Putin got to keep Crimea longer. If Ukraine can expel Russia out of two regions, can they then get Crimea back?

      • They'll send a Satan-2 missile to the US east coast.

        They have a death wish? This is no longer appeasement years, if Russia decides to nuke the USA, they will cease to exist in about 20 minutes.

        Better maske that first salvo count Poot-Bin, there will be no second.

      • "They'll send a Satan-2 missile to the US east coast." Over $46,540... ya i wouldnt put it past the... thats alot of money in rusa.

    • Re: (Score:1)

      by Shugart ( 598491 )
      They could arrest any employees of Google in Russia and try to extort money from Google. It would be interesting to see if Google would pay.
    • You laugh, but when an entire nation's legislation for their country gets trampled on by some tech firm simply because it's large and powerful, perhaps larger and more powerful than the country in which it was formed, that is a serious civil rights issue.
      Yeah, yeah, I understand, Putin man bad, but at this point, any superpower can rally up enough vitriol against any country it doesn't like and make it's existence Hell until it complies to the norms outlined by the group rallied to oppose it.
      This time

  • So what? (Score:5, Informative)

    by Bert64 ( 520050 ) <bert@[ ]shdot.fi ... m ['sla' in gap]> on Friday May 27, 2022 @03:03PM (#62571018) Homepage

    Google's russian subsidiary declared bankruptcy, and russia has no jurisdiction over the rest of google's operations located outside russia.
    They have no need nor reason to comply with russian legislation anymore, and no way to make any money from russian users due to sanctions anyway.

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by gtall ( 79522 )

      Russian "legislation" is just like Chinese "legislation". It has never been properly vetted by a fairly elected legislature. It is meaningless.

      • Re: (Score:2)

        by HiThere ( 15173 )

        What does that have to do with what's a law and what isn't? Pharonic Egypt had laws. So did Babylonia. So did the Mosaic Jews.

        I'd be surprised if you could find a people that didn't have laws. Possible the Yk, as I've heard that they had a working anarchy, but a quick search on Google didn't turn up any mention of them. (IIUC, the Yk were a tribe that lived somewhere in Africa and had a stable anarchy until some kind of crisis [possibly drought], when it may have collapsed. I never had any primary sour

  • Vlad will personally show up at their headquarters on the back of a rabid kodiak.
  • ... russia will be busy fighting over their last potato.

    • ... russia will be busy fighting over their last potato.

      The world will be a glass parkinglot long before then, you shouldn't take pushing propaganda on your perceived enemies so seriously. They aren't just some random little nation, they're the only ones with as many nukes as us. What do you think OUR corrupt-as-shit leadership would do to the people who decided to reduce them to fighting over potatoes? If you think they're worse, or even equal, why would you make light of that? It's the peasants who get fucked in wars, not the leaders.

      • Re: (Score:2)

        by PPH ( 736903 )

        Ok, ok. They'll be fighting over baked potatoes.

  • Are we sure we got that number right? Are we sure that isn't the bribe figure to the official to just make it all go away? Google earns more than that in the time it took me to type this.

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