Russia starts blocking LinkedIn website after court ruling

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Source: Reuters

TECHNOLOGY NEWS | Thu Nov 17, 2016 | 6:35am EST

Russia starts blocking LinkedIn website after court ruling

Russia's communications regulator ordered public access to LinkedIn's website to be blocked on Thursday to comply with a court ruling that found the social networking firm guilty of violating data storage laws.

LinkedIn (LNKD.N), headquartered in the United States, is the first major social network to be blocked by Russian authorities, setting a precedent for the way foreign Internet firms operate. It has over 6 million registered users in Russia.

Russian law requires websites that store the personal data of Russian citizens to do so on Russian servers, something communications regulator Roskomnadzor said LinkedIn had not done.

LinkedIn's site will be blocked within 24 hours, the Interfax news agency cited Roskomnadzor spokesman Vadim Ampelonsky as saying. One Internet service provider, Rostelcom, said it had already blocked access to the site.

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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-russia-linkedin-idUSKBN13C0RN

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1. Fine. Now all their oil and gas engineer s can stop sending me invites.

For some reason a lot of them want to come to work here ... strangely enough I don't see people trying to go there...