LinkedIn Banned By Russia

(RTTNews) - Linked in will not be accessible in Russia as the State Government have asked to remove the app from the app stores. The move is to comply with a court decision in November that directed all personal data of Russian citizens to be housed in servers located in Russia.

As per the directions from the Russian government, Google and Apple have removed the access to the Linked in App.

The Government has been pointing to security issues and leakage of personal data to implement the data storage law. The law permits authorities to blacklist companies or to block services within the country.

Foreign companies have been found it difficult to comply with the directions to keep a local server for data storage.

Recently, the U.S. officials accused that Russia has tried to influence the recently concluded Presidential elections in U.S. The U.S. presume that Russian Intelligence agencies have accessed and maintained access to multiples of U.S. State and local electoral boards.