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Google fined $260,000 for breaching data localisation rules: Report

Russia has issued multiple fines to US technology companies in recent years

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A Moscow court fined Alphabet's Google 15 million rubles ($260,000) on Thursday for refusing to comply with Russia’s law requiring technology companies to localise user data, the TASS news agency reported. 

Russia has issued multiple fines to US technology companies in recent years over a string of infringements with the country’s increasingly strict online laws.

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