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LinkedIn blocked in Russia on court orders
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RUSSIAN internet providers yesterday started blocking the LinkedIn professional networking site after a state watchdog found it broke a law on personal data storage.
“The social networking site LinkedIn has been added to a register of violators ... and submitted for blocking by internet operators,” Roskomnadzor communications watchdog said in a statement on its website.
Roskomnadzor’s spokesman Vadim Ampelonsky said that “in the course of today a large number of internet providers should block” the site.
LinkedIn, in a statement, said it was “starting to hear from members in Russia that they can no longer access LinkedIn.”
The hashtag LinkedIn was topping the trends on Twitter in Russia as the news emerged.
“Roskomnadzor’s action to block LinkedIn denies access to the millions of members we have in Russia,” the United States-based company said.
“We remain interested in a meeting with Roskomnadzor to discuss their data localization request.”
President Vladimir Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov told journalists yesterday that the blockage is “in strict accordance with the law” and the Kremlin will not interfere.
LinkedIn was acquired by Microsoft for US$26 billion in June in the biggest ever deal for a social media company.
It has over 467 million registered members, including over 6 million in Russia.
On November 10, a Moscow court rejected an appeal and upheld an August decision that LinkedIn broke a controversial new law that requires personal data of Russian users to be stored in the country. The ruling also told LinkedIn to stop giving users’ data to third parties without informing them.
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