Ookla

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2022: Fine in the amount of 1 million rubles for refusing to localize the data of Russians

On July 12, 2022, Ookla, which develops a popular service for analyzing the speed of Internet access, was fined 1 million rubles by a magistrate of the Tagansky district of Moscow. The reason is the refusal to place the data of Russian users on servers located within the Russian Federation.

Ookla LLC was found guilty of committing an administrative offense under Part 8 of Article 13.11 of the Administrative Code of the Russian Federation (failure by the operator when collecting personal data, including on the Internet, to ensure the storage of personal data of citizens of the Russian Federation). The maximum punishment for this first violation is a fine of up to 6 million rubles. This is the first fine for the company under this article in Russia.

Speedtest service owner fined 1 million rubles

Ookla representatives asked the court to stop the administrative proceedings due to the lack of corpus delicti.

According to the case file referred to by RIA Novosti during the use of the Speedtest service, users can submit payment data, which is regarded as personal information.

Roskomnadzor and the Ministry of Digital Industry believe that Ookla processes data received from mobile devices and PCs in Russia about the location of users, their IP addresses, the speed of connection to the Internet, the provider, and then they are transmitted to the company's servers around the world, which contradicts the law of the Russian Federation. Departments fear that this information may get into the databases of spammers, fraudsters or foreign special services.

Roskomnadzor sent a demand for the localization of personal data, but the company did not do this, then an administrative protocol was drawn up.

An Ookla lawyer asked to call two Roskomnadzor employees as witnesses to claim additional evidence, but the judge refused.^[1]

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