A Russian court fined Apple on Tuesday for not storing information about Russian citizens within the country.
Many countries have data localization laws requiring their citizen’s data be stored locally, not just Russia.
Apple is not following Russian data localization laws
Russian law requires Big Tech to store data on servers in Russia for up to six months, and decrypt it at government request. Apple agreed to comply with the law back in 2018.
But the iPhone-maker has recently been fined by a Moscow court for not storing customer data in Russia, according to Reuters. The fine is reportedly 2 million rubles, or $33,600.
Not just Russia
Russia is not the only country with data localization laws.
In 2018, Apple carried out a migration of China-based iCloud accounts to a server operated by a Chinese company. It did this to comply with regulations stating that cloud services in China must be operated by local companies.
Ed Hardy has been writing full-time about tech for 25 years, and using it for much longer than that. His intro to Apple was a Macintosh Classic II (which he still has), but now he uses a 13-inch iPad Pro as his primary computer. He’s written for NotebookReview, TabletPCReview, and Brighthand, as well as other sites.
