Russia fines WhatsApp 17 million rubles
In Russia, WhatsApp has been fined 17 million rubles (approximately 195 thousand dollars) on the grounds that it did not localize user data within the country.
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The lawsuit filed against WhatsApp was heard in the capital, Moscow.
Concluding that WhatsApp failed to comply with the law by not localizing the data of users on the application within Russia, the court ordered the company to pay a fine of 17 million rubles.
In the country, in addition to WhatsApp, various foreign platforms such as Spotify and LinkedIn have also been fined for failing to localize user data.