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MyHeritage is a global online platform that allows participants to create their own family websites, share photos and videos, create ancestral trees and search for ancestors, and produce genealogical DNA tests. The company was founded in 2003 in Israel. According to the company, more than 100 million people use its platform (data for January 2022).
History
2021: A fine of 1.5 million rubles for refusing to localize the data of Russians
On January 17, 2022, the Tagansky Court of Moscow fined the online platform MyHeritage, whose servers are located in Israel, 1.5 million rubles for refusing to localize the data of Russians.
 | MyHeritage Ltd found guilty of committing an administrative offense under Part 8 of Art. 13.11 of the Administrative Code of the Russian Federation [Failure by the operator to collect personal data, including through the Internet, the obligation to ensure the storage of personal data of citizens of the Russian Federation using databases located in the Russian Federation); in accordance with Russian law, a fine for this violation - from 1 million to 6 million rubles - approx. TAdviser], the press service of the court, which quoted Kommersant, said. |  |
The publication recalls that according to Russian laws, companies are required to ensure the recording, systematization, storage and extraction of personal data of Russians using databases in the country. Roskomnadzor claims that this allows us to provide the necessary data protection in Russia.
2020: Verification of the Moscow prosecutor's office for the legality of DNA collection
In March 2020, it was reported that the MyHeritage would check the Moscow prosecutor's office for the legality of collecting DNA tests from Russians. The service offers users, among other things, to do a DNA test to find out from which regions the ancestors came. There is no information about the results of the data validation in the public domain.[1]
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