The resolution applies to Apple to store information about Russian users in the country. The American company must pay two million rubles to the treasury. Apple says that the defendant is not in the case.

The decision was made today by the World Court of the Tagansky district of Moscow, Interfax reports:

Apple for this article is fined for the first time. Representatives of the Technogant in court said that the corporation is not responsible for collecting data in Russia.

The arguments of Roskomnadzor: Apple's Apple is assembled by the Apple Inc: Apple:

Apple believed that they closed the issue with localization three years ago. At the end of 2018, the Americans registered as a personal data operator and officially notified Roskomnadzor about this.

We add that on July 26 the same Tagan court will make a decision on the WhatsApp messenger (belongs to META - recognized in Russia as extremist, activity is prohibited). For a repeated refusal to localize the data of Russian users of the company, can threaten from 6 million to 18 million rubles.

The following in the July queue for a multimillion -dollar fine is the Spotify music service, Snapchat applications and Ookla LLC, it owns the SpeedTest Internet measurement service.

The Russian representative office of the company, LLC "Apple Rus" - in December 2018 officially notified Roskomnadzor of the localization of Russian users in the Russian Federation, after which it was included in the register of personal data operators.#Cybersecurity