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Re:Russia Requires Apple and Google to Remove LinkedIn from ... by dmoy on Saturday January 07, 2017 @02:23PM (#13346009)
Oh is this 242-FZ? If so, that ate up like most of my Q3 2015.

My cynical reading of the law was that it was aimed more at having data physically on hand if it needs to be subpoenaed. But IANAL, so maybe I'm just being too cynical. Also what I did or didn't think of the law doesn't matter really, since higher ups decided what was to be done about the law, and I just implemented it.

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Re:Russia Requires Apple and Google to Remove LinkedIn from ... by dntlkatmyname on Saturday January 07, 2017 @05:31PM (#13347041)
I think that law was just blatant incompetence. For one there is no process for verifying whether or not you actually store anything in Russia. And even then, there's not much of a point in having a physical access to that data unless somebody is stupid enough to store it in plain text.
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