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Russian Ministry for Digital Development proposes turnover fines for data breaches

The Ministry for Digital Development, Communications and Mass Media of the Russian Federation is preparing a bill on turnover-based fines for the personal data breach.

12:24 13.07.2022

Bill on fiscal data protection reaches State Duma

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.

17:43 04.09.2018

State Duma lawmakers back bill on personal data leak prevention

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.

14:38 26.02.2015

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

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.

15:27 11.12.2014

News of the World ex-editor released from jail early

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.

14:16 21.11.2014

Russia considers increasing fines for disclosing trade secrets

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.

10:35 17.11.2014

Russian data protection law can come into effect in January

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.

17:06 16.09.2014

Google probes alleged theft of 5 mln Gmail passwords

Google is investigating the alleged theft of almost five million logins and passwords to Gmail accounts, the company’s press service told RIA Novosti.

15:28 10.09.2014

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

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.

10:36 04.09.2014

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

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.

10:23 08.08.2014

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

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.

10:50 11.06.2014

US to deport former Microsoft employee to Russia

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.

10:34 06.06.2014

Russia ramps up fines for obtaining and revealing commercial secrets

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.

14:47 29.05.2014

Germany wants Zuckerberg to testify in NSA case - report

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.

10:33 23.05.2014

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

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.

15:48 22.04.2014

US Senate committee reveals murky world of consumer data sales

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.

14:46 19.12.2013

Unveiled NSA surveillance ruling offers glimpse into US legal rationale

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.

16:53 18.09.2013

Federation Council sets up working group to investigate online data leaks

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.

15:17 26.06.2013

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

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.

13:53 21.06.2013