The fee for the communication platform WhatsApp is 18 million roubles, reports Reuters. This corresponds to approximately NOK 2.9 million. Snapchat has received a fine of 1 million roubles, which is just over NOK 161,000. Russia believes the two American companies have refused to store Russian user data in Russia, according to the Russian news agency Interfax. According to Russian law, foreign companies that collect data on Russian citizens must store the data on Russian databases, writes NTB. Russian authorities and Western technology companies have been at loggerheads for a long time, something that has come up after Russia invaded Ukraine on 24 February.
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