Russia opens case against WhatsApp

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Russia opens case against WhatsApp

For violating personal data law.

Russia has launched administrative proceedings against Facebook's WhatsApp for what it said was a failure to localise data of Russian users on Russian territory, the Interfax news agency reported. There was no immediate comment from Facebook. A day earlier, a Russian court fined Google 3 ...

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