The State Duma supported the bill on increasing fines for refusing to place data of Russians on Russian servers

The first reading took place bill on increasing fines for refusing to store personal data of citizens of the Russian Federation on Russian servers, which was introduced in June 2019. This time the State Duma supported the bill.

Previously, the size of the fine amounted to thousands of rubles, now it should grow tenfold. If a company has violated the requirements for data storage for the first time, it must pay 2-6 million rubles. In the event of a repeated violation, the fine could rise to 18 million rubles.

According to the head of Roskomnadzor Alexander Zharov, such a measure should help force Internet companies such as Facebook and Twitter to comply with data storage requirements.

The bill also prescribes an increase in fines for search engines that refuse to monitor the register of banned sites and remove relevant sites from their search results in a timely manner. So, Google paid 2018 thousand rubles for this in December 500, and 2019 thousand in July 700. Now the authors of the bill propose to increase this amount to 1-3 million rubles.

Yesterday, September 9, 3DNews писалthat Roskomnadzor may block Facebook in the Russian Federation due to non-payment of a fine of 3000 rubles for refusing to transfer the data of Russian users of the social network to the territory of the Russian Federation. The company did not pay the fine, which, according to the court decision (it entered into force on June 25), had to pay within 60 days.

The Moscow court made this decision back in April 2019, following a complaint from Roskomnadzor. Moreover, not only Facebook, but also Twitter was fined for this violation. Each of them had to pay a fine of 3000 rubles. The maximum amount of the fine does not exceed 5000 rubles. For such large Internet companies, this is a very small amount.

In Germany, the UK, France and Turkey, a similar bill is also working, but the fines are in the millions (in terms of rubles).

Amendments to the Code of Administrative Offenses have made deputies of the United Russia party Viktor Pinsky and Daniil Bessarabov.

Source: 3dnews.ru