Russia Demands Twitter, Facebook, Google Comply With Data Storage Law (Or Risk Being Banned)

Russia’s media watchdog Roskomnadzor has contacted Twitter, Facebook and Google to demand that they register themselves as “organizers of information distribution” under a new law that could allow these platforms to be banned in the country, reports The Moscow Times.

Any online services registered as “organizers of information distribution” would have to keep any information about Russian users of their services stored on servers located inside the country.

Maxim Ksenzov, deputy chief Roskomnadzor, said that the agency would “force [Twitter, Facebook and Google] one way or the other to obey the law”.

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