Google will study the court’s decision on a turnover fine of 7.2 billion rubles, after which it will determine further actions. This was announced on Friday, December 24, by the press service of the corporation.
The Magistrate’s Court of the Tagansky District of Moscow, earlier that day, ordered a fine of Google 7.2 billion rubles. The company was found guilty of committing an administrative offense under Part 5 of Art. 13.41 of the Administrative Code of the Russian Federation (“Violation of the procedure for restricting access to information”).
This is the first time a turnaround fine has been imposed on Google in Russia. Its size depends on the company’s revenue. The court had the right to apply a turnover fine to her – from 1/20 to 1/10 of the proceeds for the year preceding the year in which the violation was revealed, but not less than 4 million rubles.
Earlier, December 7, Google has been fined four times in Russia. Thus, the magistrate ordered to fine the company under two protocols for 4 million rubles for failure to remove prohibited content. The court also fined the company under two protocols for not removing links to sites with prohibited information (part 4 of article 13.41 of the Administrative Offenses Code of the Russian Federation) 10 million rubles. Thus, the total amount of Google fines at that time reached 58 million rubles.
Fines were issued for failure to remove prohibited content, including calls to extremism, links to it, as well as refusal to localize personal data of Russians on servers in the Russian Federation.
The law, according to which social networks must themselves identify and block prohibited content, came into force in Russia on February 1. If they cannot independently assess the illegality of the content, the administration of the social network must send the data to Roskomnadzor within 24 hours.
Source: IZ
Jane Stock is a technology author, who has written for 24 Hours World. She writes about the latest in technology news and trends, and is always on the lookout for new and innovative ways to improve his audience’s experience.
