The story of Telegram starts in 2013, created by the Russian Brothers Pavel and Nikolay Durov. Telegram is a cloud-based messenger application located in United Kingdom. This Application allows sending texts, photos, videos, audio files and stickers between the users from the entire world. Durov Brothers were also creators…
On September 13, 2017 the Acting Secretary of Homeland Security, Elaine Duke, issued a Binding Operational Directive (BOD) directing Federal Executive Branch departments and agencies to take actions related to the use or presence of information security products, solutions and services supplied directly or indirectly by Russian company Kaspersky Lab.…
Harvard scientists from Russia and the United States have created the world’s first quantum computer, consisting of 51 qubits. As reported in July 2017 by Harvard University professor and co-founder of the Russian quantum center, Mikhail Lukin, this 51 qubit quantum computer has been created by using a technique called…
On the 4th of July (!), the lower house of the Russian parliament (the State Duma), approved by 325 votes against 65 a bill obliging foreign Internet companies to store Russian citizens’ personal data on servers within the Russian Federation.
1. When will this new law come into action?
The law, signed the 22th of July also by the President Vladimir Putin and still awaiting the approval of the upper house, the Federation Council would come into force Sept. 1, 2016 giving both foreign and domestic internet companies enough time to create data-storage facilities in Russia.
2. To whom will this law apply to?
The law will apply to social networking, messaging services (e-mail), foreign search engines (e.g. Google) and any company that stores data from (or about) a Russian citizen (online booking, social networks, procurement Services, consulates of foreign embassies, VPN). They will be required to “ensure registration, systematization, accumulation, storage, updating and retrieval of personal data” of Russian citizens via a server built and approved by the government. So, in order to continue to operate in Russia, they will be required to transfer some of their servers within the country. (suite…)