Vladimir Putin’s government is threatening to shut down business networking site LinkedIn. The threat stems from a recent law in Russia that requires all companies doing business in the country to store their data locally, something that LinkedIn does not do.The decision is driven by the fear about data privacy in the wake of Edward Snowden’s revelations about NSA snooping.
http://fortune.com/2016/10/26/linkedin-russia/
This is interesting article to show how government’s are taken action to prevent the loss of privacy to their citizens. I’ve seen a lot of new regulations requiring global companies to store data locally, in the host nations where they operate. I think as the law catches up to technology changes and evolving security concerns, we will see more and more of this type of litigation.
I agree Loi. In the future Government’s will start to mandate security regulations and start demanding companies do things a certain way to mitigate as much security risks as possible. Government’s number one priority is national security. Cyber security in general pretty much falls into that. If large organizations have security breaches, then this impacts national security as well.
Yeah and I firmly believe that snowden leaks were like the turning point in face of IT Security.A lot of countries and organizations changed their strategies to secure their information systems .Storing data locally will have a more control on the flow of data .National Security is absolutely important and countries can make laws pertaining to it