A court in Moscow fined Google 4 million rubles for refusing to remove prohibited information. This was reported to Izvestia in the press service of the Tagansky district of the city on January 17.
“GOOGLE LLC – GOOGLE LLC was found guilty of committing an administrative offense under Part 2.1 of Art. 13.40 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation, and he was sentenced to an administrative fine in the amount of 4 million rubles,” the report said.
On January 12, the management of Google, Facebook (Meta Platforms) and WhatsApp paid fines in the amount of 22 million rubles for violations of the law on the localization of data of Russians.
Prior to that, on December 24, the world court of the Tagansky district of Moscow ruled to fine Google 7.2 billion rubles. The company was found guilty of committing an administrative offense under Part 5 of Art. 13.41 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation (“Violation of the procedure for restricting access to information”).
A turnover fine against Google was imposed in Russia for the first time. Its size depends on the company’s revenue. The court had the right to impose a turnover fine on her – from 1/20 to 1/10 of the proceeds for the year preceding the year in which the offense was discovered, but not less than 4 million rubles.
Irina Rukavishnikova, First Deputy Chairman of the Federation Council Committee on Constitutional Legislation, in an interview with Izvestia, called these measures forced. According to her, earlier IT giants were assigned the usual fixed fines, which the companies paid and continued to violate the laws of Russia.
In the case of turnover fines, the amounts of penalties become much more serious, so companies should realize the need to work “within the framework of Russian legislation,” the senator emphasized.
Roskomnadzor clarified that Facebook and Instagram did not remove more than 2 thousand materials with prohibited information, this threatens with new turnover fines.
On February 1, 2021, a law came into force in Russia, according to which social networks must themselves identify and block prohibited content. If it is not possible to independently assess the illegality of the content within a day, the administration of the social network must send the data to Roskomnadzor.
Source: IZ
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