Privacy

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Russian Supreme Court does not consider message decoding data to be secret

Information required for decoding of digital messages is not classified as requiring restricted access and as such can’t be treated as secrecy of correspondence protected by the Constitution or any other law.

17:40 20.08.2018

Russian court rules in favor of Deripaska in breach of privacy lawsuit

The Ust’-Labinsk District Court in the Krasnodar Region has partially granted a lawsuit filed by Russian businessman Oleg Deripaska against Anastasia Vashukevich (also known as Nastya Rybka) and Alexander Kirillov (Alex Lesley) over breach of privacy.

14:59 09.07.2018

Telegram turns to ECHR over decoding messages

Telegram Messenger LLP has filed an appeal with the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) against an 800,000-ruble fine ($14,000) imposed on the company for refusal to provide information on user messages decoding to the Federal Security Service (FSB).

10:48 22.03.2018

Investigators may read correspondence without court order – Russian Constitutional Court

The Constitutional Court of Russia has ruled that investigators may read correspondence on phones, tablets and computers without a court order.

13:59 14.02.2018

Russian Constitutional Court orders providers to uphold privacy of correspondence

The Constitutional Court of Russia has ruled that email providers do not own information of its users and have to uphold privacy of correspondence.

14:46 26.10.2017

Prominent Russian journalists to sue FSB over Telegram

Prominent Russian journalists Oleg Kashin and Alexander Plyushchev on Wednesday will file lawsuits against the Federal Security Service (FSB) over the request to obtain information on Telegram messages decoding.

13:31 25.10.2017

Russian Constitutional Court to review law allowing providers to read personal emails

Russia’s Constitutional Court will consider an appeal against provisions of the law on information allowing providers of communication services to gain access to privacy of the users’ correspondence.

16:45 15.09.2017

Google appeal against recovery of $706 for scanning e-mail turned down

The Moscow City Court has refused to consider a cassational appeal filed by the Russian office of Google against the lower court’s ruling ordering the company to pay 50,000 rubles ($706) to Yekaterinburg resident Anton Burkov in compensation for violating his privacy rights.

14:49 29.12.2015

Moscow lawyers report Windows 10 data privacy risks to Prosecutor General

The Bubnov and Partners Moscow legal firm has asked the Prosecutor General Yury Chaika to investigate violations of the law that allegedly occur during the distribution of Microsoft's new product Windows 10.

18:24 19.08.2015

U.S. court rules government to obtain warrant for cellphone location records – report

A court in the U.S. has ruled that the country's government requires a warrant to obtain mobile phone location information of a suspect in a criminal case.

11:06 07.08.2015

Wikimedia sues NSA over upstream mass surveillance

Wikimedia Foundation, nonprofit organization that controls and operates the Wikipedia website, is filing a suit against American National Security Agency (NSA) over the expansive surveillance program which involves the Wikipedia.

17:32 10.03.2015

Moscow court set to hear privacy lawsuit against Google

Moscow's Zamoskvoretsky District Court on Monday set a hearing for March 2 to consider a suit filed by Yekaterinburg resident Anton Burkov accusing Google of violating his privacy rights.

11:34 16.02.2015

Russian lawmaker proposes to restrict access to Internet anonymity service Tor

Leonid Levin, chairman of the Russian State Duma Committee on Information Policy and Communications, suggested to restrict access to the Internet privacy service Tor.

13:27 05.02.2015

Court rules that publicizing German ex-chancellor Helmut Kohl quotes is illegal

Thursday the Land Court of Cologne ruled against journalist Heribert Schwan in Helmut Kohl’s lawsuit against Schwan, who was Kohl’s biographer, RIA Novosti reports on Thursday.

16:24 13.11.2014

Supreme Court upholds Rambler Internet Holding’s non-disclosure fine

Russia’s Supreme Commercial Court will not review a lower court’s decision to impose a 500,000 ruble ($14,465) fine on Russian Rambler Internet Holding for its refusal to provide information on online correspondence, the court told RAPSI on Tuesday.

16:52 17.06.2014

European Court to protect online users from search engines

IT companies operating search engines are responsible for dissemination of personal data that appear on third party websites and therefore must act upon requests to delete such data, the Court of Justice of the European Union ruled on Tuesday.

14:55 13.05.2014

Mail.ru claim against non-disclosure fine dismissed

The Moscow Commercial Court has upheld a previous court decision to impose a 500,000 ruble ($15,310) fine on Mail.Ru for refusal to disclose user data to the Bank of Russia's financial market regulation branch.

17:01 16.01.2014

Facebook sued for alleged privacy violations

Social media giant Facebook has been sued based on allegations of having shared data intercepted from users’ private messages with advertising and marketing firms in order to turn a profit.

20:16 03.01.2014

UK plaintiffs attempt to sue Google for alleged illegal tracking

A group of consumers are attempting to sue Google for allegedly collecting personal data against their will, The Telegraph reported Monday.

15:31 16.12.2013

Mail.Ru Group contests undisclosure fine in court

The Moscow Commercial Court has registered a lawsuit filed by Mail.ru against the fine imposed for refusing to disclose user data to the financial markets regulator.

17:21 31.10.2013