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Bill on fiscal data protection reaches State Duma

17:43 04/09/2018 The Federation Council members Lyudmila Bokova and Vladimir Poletayev have submitted a bill to enhance security of fiscal data handled in Russia to the State Duma.

State Duma lawmakers back bill on personal data leak prevention

14:38 26/02/2015 The State Duma Committee on Constitutional Legislation and State Building has recommended that the lower house pass a bill on the prevention of personal data leaks in the first reading.

Attorney General of Germany says no tangible evidence on Merkel’s NSA wiretap

15:27 11/12/2014 The Supreme Court of Germany has yet to uncover any tangible evidence supporting the claim that Chancellor Angela Merkel phone was tapped by American intelligence services, according to Attorney General of Harald Range.

News of the World ex-editor released from jail early

14:16 21/11/2014 The former editor of the British tabloid, News of the World, Andy Coulson, who was sentenced to 18 months for tapping into the phones of the royal family, has been released after five months in prison, RIA Novosti reports this Friday.

Russia considers increasing fines for disclosing trade secrets

10:35 17/11/2014 The Russian government has submitted to the State Duma a bill increasing fines for breaching the rules relating to acquisition and disclosure of trade secrets, commercial or financial information.

Russian data protection law can come into effect in January

17:06 16/09/2014 The State Duma Committee on Information Policy recommended that the lower house adopt a bill to make the personal data storage law effective in January 2015.

Google probes alleged theft of 5 mln Gmail passwords

15:28 10/09/2014 Google is investigating the alleged theft of almost five million logins and passwords to Gmail accounts, the company’s press service told RIA Novosti.

Google may leak personal data of Russians to Ukraine’s Security Service - report

10:36 04/09/2014 Yevgeny Fyodorov, lawmaker of Russia's lower house of parliament, claims that Google may leak personal data of Russian citizens to the Ukraine’s Security Service and wants the Prosecutor General’s Office to check the allegations.

Russian officials to be held liable for sending work documents via personal email

10:23 08/08/2014 Irina Yarovaya, Chair of the State Duma Committee for Security and Counter-Corruption Measures, announced plans to introduce criminal liability for public officials who send work related information via non-state email services (gmail.com, mail.ru, yandex.ru), Izvestia reports.

Former Russian Microsoft employee sentenced in US to three months in prison

10:50 11/06/2014 Federal District Court in Seattle on Tuesday sentenced former Microsoft employee Alex Kibkalo, who was charged with stealing and then leaking company secrets, to three months in prison, according to the court documents.

US to deport former Microsoft employee to Russia

10:34 06/06/2014 US authorities plan to deport former Microsoft employee Alex Kibkalo, who was charged with stealing and then leaking company secrets, to Russia after he serves his sentence, RAPSI learned on Thursday.

Russia ramps up fines for obtaining and revealing commercial secrets

14:47 29/05/2014 Russian authorities are considering increasing the fines for illegally obtaining and disclosing commercial, fiscal or banking secrets up to 1.5 million rubles ($43,500). The relevant amendments to the Criminal Code have been published on the website of planned legislation.

Germany wants Zuckerberg to testify in NSA case - report

10:33 23/05/2014 Members of the German parliamentary commission, which is investigating the US National Security Agency’s (NSA) questionable activity, want the heads of US high-tech companies, including Apple, Facebook, Twitter and Google, to testify to the Bundestag, writes Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.

Former Russian Microsoft employee to be sentenced in US for data theft on June 10

15:48 22/04/2014 Alex Kibkalo, a former Microsoft employee from Russia, who was charged with theft of trade secrets, to be sentenced in the US on June 10.

US Senate committee reveals murky world of consumer data sales

14:46 19/12/2013 A US Senate committee released a report Wednesday illuminating the enormous market for so-called “data brokers” that profit on the sale of data collected from “hundreds of millions” of consumers.

Unveiled NSA surveillance ruling offers glimpse into US legal rationale

16:53 18/09/2013 A document released Tuesday by the US Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) shed light into the shadowy US legal strategy underlying the National Security Agency’s (NSA) large-scale telephone data collection.

Federation Council sets up working group to investigate online data leaks

15:17 26/06/2013 The Federation Council, Russia's upper house of parliament, will establish an intra-agency working group to investigate user data leaks to US intelligence agencies.

Prosecutors urged to probe possible leaks of Russian data by Google, Facebook

13:53 21/06/2013 Senator Ruslan Gattarov has asked Prosecutor General Yury Chaika to look into possible leaks to US intelligence agencies of the personal data of Russian users through companies such as Google, Facebook, and Apple.

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