Just curious: are Russian public services like Mail.Ru or Yandex planning to support GDPR? From May 2018, the accountability for violating personal data processing rules will tighten for services that handle personal data of EU residents and citizens, regardless of location. Under GDPR, fines can reach 20 million euros (about 1.5 billion rubles) or 4% of the company’s annual global revenue. Essentially, large Russian services have two options: either tell EU citizens that they are no longer clients (which, probably, is painless, but must be done), or comply with the requirements. I think that public companies with ambitions should choose the latter. But somehow a search on the net shows no movements in this direction. Or am I searching poorly?
For example, under GDPR requirements, you must have the ability to download all the data that the service has accumulated about you. On Facebook, for instance, this has been possible for a long time (https://www.facebook.com/help/131112897028467). And on Google as well (https://takeout.google.com/settings/takeout). And Microsoft (https://account.microsoft.com/privacy/activity-history)
Theoretically, Russian services might not comply with this at all, since they are not in the EU, but then existing and future EU customers must be left out. However, you can register on both Yandex and Mail with an American or European phone number from the US and Europe.
Many also make a show of compliance, which suits the EU. Like, they ask if I mind them using cookies, having already used them by that point 🙂 But what’s strange is I don’t see any effort from Russian services, from Telegram to Mail. Or am I searching poorly?
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