Apple and Google have been summoned by Russia to remove LinkedIn from their stores respective applications. In mid-November, the social network website had been censored in the country.
Russia doesn’t want any more from LinkedIn on its territory. After having been ordained in November, censorship of the Web version of the professional social network, the Russian authorities have claimed to be Google and Apple to remove its mobile app to their respective platforms, Google Play and the App Store. The information, as reported by the New York Times, has been confirmed by Apple and LinkedIn. Google has merely to reaffirm that he adhered to the local laws of the countries in which its services were accessible.
At least around these prohibitions by using a VPN, a virtual private network that allows access to the sites or the services in online distance learning, it is now impossible for Russian internet users to find the app from the App Store or Google Play. This censorship is a victory for digital Russia. The country keeps for several weeks as the professional network in the u.s. is outside the law. From September 2015, the Web companies have the obligation to store on the national territory, the data of the Russian citizens. LinkedIn acquired by Microsoft in mid-June, has so far refused to comply with this rule. Roskomnadzor, the government agency for monitoring telecommunications, had seized the justice Russian as early as August 2016 to punish such refusal.
ordered directly from Apple and Google to remove LinkedIn from their respective platforms, the Russian federation imposes a sanction unprecedented. The country had until then to spend by the access providers (ISPS) to block access to certain sites on its territory. Several large, iconic companies, reluctant at first, eventually bend to the wishes of the Kremlin regarding the storage of personal data. Google has moved several servers mid-April 2015, to host the data of Russian citizens on their soil, according to information from the Wall Street Journal. Same approach for Apple, who agreed in September 2015 to rent servers in russia that the company IXcellerate, to meet the demand of the country.
such An approach on the part of Russia appears in a context of resistance accentuated the States in the face of the giants of the Web in america. At the end of may, Iran has threatened to block all e-mail applications that do rapatrieraient not the data of his fellow-citizens in the country. Turkey blocks regular access to all the major social networks and messaging applications, including Facebook, Twitter, or WhatsApp, in case of an emergency. These three networks have been blocked again in the few hours that followed the assassination of the Russian ambassador to Ankara. Turkey Blocks, an organization specialized in the censorship of the Web in Turkey, says on its website that the country is launching its own search engine compliant “with the culture and national values”. The authoritarian States are not only to be looking face to the operating mode of the giants of the Web. At the end of October 2015, the CNIL German has been prohibited to them to store their data outside of european soil, note Euractiv.
Sometimes limited in spite of them, the american companies can also agree to adapt to the rigidity of some of the countries in which they operate. To capture the promising chinese market, Facebook has recently declared itself ready to accept a form of censorship. The social network has created a tool capable of removing systematically and automatically some of the content of its platform, which is deemed sensitive by the chinese government. On 5 January, Apple confirmed that it had withdrawn the application of the New York Times of the chinese version of its App Store, on request of the local authorities.
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