Alexey Bakhtiarov Director of the hosting company Infobox
Posted: Tue Jan 28, 2025 4:49 am
"In our opinion, it is not possible to prohibit the cross-border transfer of personal data in the modern world, unless we isolate ourselves from it and build an "iron curtain". Even if foreign Internet services are required to store data on servers located in Russia, how can we prohibit them from reading this data from the place where it is actually located? If this is not done, then nothing new will come from the legislative restriction of the storage location"
Most services whose activities are directly related to the processing of personal data responded with restraint. Almost all large companies, such as Twitter, Facebook, PayPal, Alibaba, Microsoft, refused to comment on the provisions and consequences of the bill. A short comment was obtained from the PayU payment system. According to its management, the company knew about the initiative in advance and was prepared for it.
Elena Orlova
Chairman of the Board of PayU
"Of course, since PayU is an international company, the adoption restaurants email database of such a law will create some difficulties, but we perceive any legislative projects adequately and are always ready for them. At the moment, our users' data is stored on a server in Poland. But we have known about the bill for a long time, so as soon as the law is adopted, PayU is ready to transfer user data to Russia without any difficulties"
Many experts emphasize that the new rules will primarily affect ticket and hotel booking services. theRunet managed to get only one comment from such a company. But the answer from the founder of the ticket purchasing service Anywayanyday turned out to be exhaustive.
Kirill Podolsky
founder of Anywayanyday
"I don't want to comment on idiotic delusional ideas. This is my comment. Write it that way."
Indira Pasko
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Most services whose activities are directly related to the processing of personal data responded with restraint. Almost all large companies, such as Twitter, Facebook, PayPal, Alibaba, Microsoft, refused to comment on the provisions and consequences of the bill. A short comment was obtained from the PayU payment system. According to its management, the company knew about the initiative in advance and was prepared for it.
Elena Orlova
Chairman of the Board of PayU
"Of course, since PayU is an international company, the adoption restaurants email database of such a law will create some difficulties, but we perceive any legislative projects adequately and are always ready for them. At the moment, our users' data is stored on a server in Poland. But we have known about the bill for a long time, so as soon as the law is adopted, PayU is ready to transfer user data to Russia without any difficulties"
Many experts emphasize that the new rules will primarily affect ticket and hotel booking services. theRunet managed to get only one comment from such a company. But the answer from the founder of the ticket purchasing service Anywayanyday turned out to be exhaustive.
Kirill Podolsky
founder of Anywayanyday
"I don't want to comment on idiotic delusional ideas. This is my comment. Write it that way."
Indira Pasko
Subscribe to our Telegram channel to stay up to date with all the news and events of the Runet.Articles July 7, 2014 • runet
What did you miss over the weekend?
New NSA surveillance details, self-driving Mercedes truck and other news for July 5-6