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10 Jun 2021 02:47 AM |
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Originally Posted by Folio
(Post 621588)
A quick search seemed to indicate that most of the big players (Apple, Google, Microsoft, etc.) have servers in Russia in order to comply with the law. I assume the big companies can absorb the costs better than Fastmail can. Here's an old WSJ article (from 2015) about Google.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/google-...ers-1428680491
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In fact, I can't beleave in "they want our business to place a server physically within their country, register a local business entity"!
A law that require IT companies to register a local business entity is under discussion just now in the parlament, so it not exists yet, but the project of the law tells about companies with more than 500 000 users (daily). So even in the future, it will not be related to Fastmail.
Second, there is a law that requires to keep personal data physically within Russia. But this law applies to Russian companies including Russian branches of foreign companies. So, again, it doesn't apply to Fastmail.
Most likely, Fastmail was asked to be registered as an internet service. In fact, Russian law about personal data is very similar to German one, and Fastmail already had a problem with German law in 2017 https://fastmail.blog/legal-policy/f...germany-again/. The actions of Fastmail were the same as now: they blocked signups and remove mobile app, but later after lawyers expalined that what is needed is just a notification, the problem was resolved.
The Fastmail blog refer to "Roskomsvoboda" and I suspect this is who provided lawyers to Fastmail. If this is so, it is very bad, because Roskomsvoboda is a political group not interested in helping Fastmail and it's users, but in creating scandals. :mad:
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