Russia fines Google $264,000 for storing users' data in US, Europe

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The Tagansky district court in Moscow fined Google $264,000 for repeatedly refusing to localize Russian citizens' personal data, according to Sputnik.

In his ruling, Judge Timur Vakhrameev called for imposing “a fine of 15 million rubles." 

The meeting was not attended by a Google representative.

Google LLC continues to store the personal data of Russians in databases located in the United States and the European Union, according to the protocol developed by Roskomnadzor under Part 9 of Art. 13.11 of the Russian Code of Administrative Offenses.

Previously, Google was fined $52 million in July 2021 for refusing to localize Russian citizens' personal data.

In the same context, the Russian Federal Bailiff Service has started collecting an almost 2 billion rubles ($24 million) fine from Meta company, which was banned in the country for being considered an extremist organization.

Meta had already permitted its users earlier to incite violence against the Russian armed forces on its social media platforms in light of Moscow's special military operation in Ukraine.

Following Meta's move, Russia blocked Instagram.

This was not Meta's first app to be prohibited in the federation, as Facebook was blocked in Russia after several instances of discrimination against Russian state media.