Russia Passes Law: Personal Data Remains Inside Its Borders

Russia doesn’t want any international parties to be spying on its citizens; Russia can spy on its own citizens quite well, thank you very much. A new law was passed on Friday requires Internet companies to store any and all personal information on Russian citizens within the Russian borders.

For the most part, this is directed against Gmail, Facebook, and Twitter.

Click to expand...

If Russia's leaders want to cut their citizens off from the last decade of connected devices, let them. They can send their people back to the days of 20mb mailboxes, newspapers, and text messages. The only thing propping up their economy is raw material they pull out of the ground. And with ultra-nationalistic fervor like this, they're hamstringing their own development.

Maybe they think they can develop their own version of Android, email, and social networks. I doubt that even the twelve North Koreans with internet access are foolish enough to sign on to a Russian intelligence network. Nowhere else on earth is information more available to the highest bidder.

I sympathize for the Russian people. They're not going to have a single outlet for dissent, once this takes effect.

"Store data?" So when someone tries to log in, their user info can't leave the country? They pretty much just banned most internet companies from offering services to Russians.

Brazil is planning to do the same thing.

The Cold War is getting warm again...

Not sure why most forum on tech sites are so non-technical, and just a mindless zombies just consuming of anything techy even if it means their own destruction. These Flea Bottomers poorest slum folks really like sharing thier files in a cloud that feed to the NSA. Appearantly Russia does not maybe they don't have mindless zombies feeding on filth/tech.

You don't really speak English, or understand what you're saying in any language, do you?