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> Amid a tense stand-off and attempt at negotiations, Russia’s communications regulator Roskomnadzor has started to enforce a proposed block of LinkedIn in the country, after the social network failed to transfer Russian user data to servers located in the country, violating a law instituted in Russia requiring all online sites to store personal data on national servers.

Not the worst rationale. Keep in mind that countries such as Canada and EU countries also have different privacy laws that US corporations have ran afoul of from time to time.




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