Russia: after close on the web, Google moved all technicians – AGI – Agenzia Journalistic Italy

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14:57 December 12, 2014

(AGI) – Moscow, December 12 – Google is planning to close all its activities’ engineering in Russia and to transfer the staff of technicians abroad. The decision comes after the launch of a law with which it forces the companies that provide Internet services to collect personal information from Russian citizens in server within the borders of the Federation, with more control of Roscomnadzor, the federal authority for telecommunications. The Information requested from the site, was the first to spread the news, Google did not comment on the decision. “Big G.” has a hundred engineers working in Russia. According to the Financial Times, the staff will be ‘transferred to other offices abroad. For the Wall Street Journal, Google could keep in the Federation only staff for sales and customer support. The decision comes after the Mountain View to ‘turn off’ the news service in Spain for not giving in to the demand than paying for the copyright of norizie. Despite the drastic measure, Google still plans to increase investment in Russia, where and ‘expanding e-commerce coinciding with the increase in the spread of the internet in the vast country of 140 million inhabitants. The Californian society covers about a third of the online search market in Russia, the goal ‘of his direct opponent, the local provider Yandex. This year, the president of Google Eric Schmidt has reported that Russia and ‘on the way to an internet censorship in the Chinese style.
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