LinkedIn Blocked By Russian Government (pcworld.com) 68
LinkedIn's network just got a little smaller: Russia's communications regulator ordered ISPs to block access to the business networking company on Thursday. From a report on PCWorld: Roskomnadzor made the order after a Moscow appeal court last week upheld an earlier ruling that LinkedIn breached Russian privacy laws. Tagansky district court ruled against LinkedIn on Aug. 4, following a complaint from the Russian federal service for the supervision of communications, information technology and mass media that its activities breached a law requiring businesses handling Russians' personal data to process that data in Russia. Roskomnadzor said it filed suit after LinkedIn failed to respond to two requests for information about its plans for relocating the data to Russia. LinkedIn isn't the only U.S. company that has been targeted under the legislation.
Lucky them (Score:1, Insightful)
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For Pete's sake, the short for Vladimir is Volodya or Vova. Vlad is short for Vladislav. Completely different name. You might as well shorten Obama to Dick.
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Re: Lucky them (Score:1)
Good for them.
Linkedin is a spying network developed by outsourced indian refugees on H1B.
Now part of Monkeyshit Corp with shit for security.
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The Internet is segmenting, whether we like it or not. China, Russia, Middle Eastern countries...the list goes on. Hell, Western nations are now firewalling themselves. Might as well do it in an organized and advantageous way to the West rather than watching it fragment piece by piece. A well chosen segmentation plan would hamper foreign intelligence gathering and criminal activity.
The open network dream is dead. Let's accept it and move on.
Fine with me. Nothing over there I care about anyway. All the Russkie websites can do is drop malware on your box anyway. Good riddance...
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Another hippie dream foiled by the realities of human nature.
phrased questionably (Score:4, Interesting)
Your phrasing shows the fragmentation from Countries like Russia and China, but omits regulations and requirements put forth by the EU as a whole and many other independent countries after it was revealed that the US was snooping on everyone all the time (including our allies). This includes the UK, Canada, Australia, and obviously more. Many of the Countries within the EU want tighter restrictions, forcing ISPs to house data for the German Government and people in Germany. Though this is not currently EU law there is pressure to go this way.
Some information is certainly worth being able to be shared with the world, but some data is not. Security experts have been saying this for decades.
If LinkedIn wanted to do business in Russia I'm sure they could lease data center space and house Russian PII information in Russia as they have been requested to do. If you are in the UK, would you want your data housed in China? How about Iran? I'm sure you could get a great deal on DC costs there, but it's not worth the risk to most.
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IANARL, but AFAIK the Russian law regarding hosting data within the country has nothing to do with the privacy of its citizens data. As part of that law, companies are allowed to export any and all data to systems residing in any other country in the world. The limitation the law imposes requires a store of that data, or a log of it, to exist within Russia's borders, and for it to flow through a system within Russia before it leaves the country (or not). In this particular case (linkedin), they could probab
Re:phrased questionably (Score:5, Informative)
Not only are you not a lawyer (I am not either), but you refused to read the Russian Law brought into question with the LinkedIn ban which explicitly states that data on Russian people must be housed inside of Russia. In fact if you read the article you would see this law articulated in exactly that way. You don't have to be a lawyer, you simply have to spend a few minutes of time to read.
You then flat out lie (intentional or otherwise) about the EU law which absolutely applies to companies outside of the EU. US Companies must house data inside the EU and all data handling must be compliant with both EU and local laws regarding data handling.
Your opinion is of no value, thanks for playing.
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If EU members' data must be stored within the EU, and Russian members' data must be stored within Russia, what allowance does the law make for storing data about interaction between EU members and Russian members?
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... law ... explicitly states that data on Russian people must be housed inside of Russia
Where did I say otherwise? The law does not say that the data must not leave Russia. You can house it there and continue to pass it on to your external systems. Ask your lawyers for confirmation on that, but that's the word I got.
You then flat out lie...
Come on... stop it with the accusations, especially when you're wrong :-)
...the EU law which absolutely applies to companies outside of the EU. US Companies must house data inside the EU and all data handling must be compliant with both EU and local laws regarding data handling.
The law is more complex than that, of course, and your statement is only true with a bunch of other conditionals. If you have a US company, physically located in the US, and all employees in the US, and serv
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Makes sense. (Score:5, Funny)
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Now that they've hired Trump, they no longer need to see his profile.
No kidding! LOL You hit that square on the head. Where are my mod points when I need them??
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Oh how the looney left has done a complete 180. First it's accuse all opponents of engaging in ludicrous conspiracy theories.
And here's the left now, engaging in a ludicrous conspiracy theory that they just won't let go. The Rooskies! It's the Rooskies fault, I tells ya!
Hilarious.
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Russian privacy laws (Score:2, Insightful)
"Russian privacy laws", lol
The Russian privacy law is "you have no privacy".
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"Russian privacy laws", lol
The Russian privacy law is "you have no privacy".
In Soviet Russia, privacy law spies on you! (or something like that..shit)...
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And this differs from the US/UK privacy laws how?
Don't ask me, I just fly the drone.
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Good to know
One less source of LinkedIn spam. (Score:3)
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If only we could do the same (Score:4, Funny)
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Sorry to spoil it for you, but Russia does not have laws, privacy, or privacy laws. Linked in is probably banned because they did not give FSB a backdoor when asked nicely, everything else is a BS. Source: I am Russian.
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> How is the circumvention process moving along? Is LinkedIn even trying?
They do. As a Russian LinkedIn user I've got letter from them today where they state that they are working with Russian authorities to resolve this problem, but meanwhile I'll be able to get updates via E-Mail. Because law doesn't require providers to block E-Mail.
Here is text of the mail:
Re: I don't understand why everyone hates linkedln (Score:1)
1. Our data is pimped out by LinkedIN
2. Those hidden views of my profile - I want to know who's looking at me.
3. Emails from recruiters every day that look like identity thieves.
4. Having what is pretty much my resume up there and then getting a request from an HR professional for me to send my resume to them - it's the same goddamn information.
5. Having every twit with my email in their contact list letting LinkedIN have access to it and getting requests to link with them.
6. Which makes LinkedIN like Faceb
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4. Actually, it's not always redundant information. Depending on what sort of a job I'm looking at, I might want to customize my resume
5. This! I have several email IDs, only one of which I use w/ LinkedIn. Yet, on one of the others, I get an invitation to join some relative's network on LinkedIn - even though I'm already one of her LinkedIn connections.
Uh oh (Score:1)
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How is Putin going to keep in contact with Trump?
I thought he was moving in with the Don.
In Soviet Russia... (Score:3)
"The Republic comprised sixteen autonomous republics, five autonomous oblasts, ten autonomous okrugs, six krais, and forty oblasts."
What, you expected a punchline? You insensitive oblast!
Old news (Score:3)
There were already rumors that this would happen:
http://www.wsj.com/articles/russia-may-block-linkedin-if-company-loses-court-case-on-personal-data-law-1478775414 [wsj.com]
Russia is asking that user data about its citizens be stored in the country exclusively. This is not unlike what the EU is asking under their new privacy laws.