Samsung brings customer data to Russia
South Korean firm Samsung has started the transfer of individual data of the visitors in the Russian Federation. Also, China's Lenovo have already completed this process, and Acer has launched a study of the options with the move.
As informs the newspaper "Vedomosti", the South Korean electronics manufacturer will place the personal data of Russian citizens in the Metropolitan data center company DataPro, owned by relatives of the former President "Rosneft" Sergey Bogdanchikov. 1 of the sources indicates that Samsung currently carries in the Russian Federation the personal data of the visitors of their accounts and applications for phones.
To protect and process personal data of Russian citizens in Russia require amendments to the law "On personal data", effective September 1, 2015. Although the law is still being prepared, when planning to transfer data Samsung comes from its most rigid interpretation", to convince the boss of the firm.
Also, adept of Roskomnadzor Vadim Ampelonskiy told that Samsung and agencies on June 18, assigned to an explanatory meeting about the use of the personal data act.
Note that the Chinese Lenovo, according to its General Manager for CIS, Russia and Eastern Europe Gleb Mishin, beginning the transfer of individual data of the population of Russia at the beginning of February is now almost completed it. The firm already has translated into personal servers in Russia personnel information database, do without the lease of space in the data center. The data transfer cost her about 50 thousand dollars.
The electronics manufacturer Acer among others, is currently studying whether personal data is the information that she passed to users, says the CEO of the company in the Russian Federation Denis Sotnikov. He argues that all fall under the law will be transferred to the domestic servers.
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