Russian court fines Facebook $63,000 over data law breach - RIA

[February 13, 2020]  MOSCOW (Reuters) - A Russian court fined social media company Facebook <FB.O> 4 million roubles ($62,922) on Thursday for its failure to comply with a Russian data law, the RIA news agency reported.

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The Tagansky District Court in Moscow fined Facebook for its refusal to put its server holding data about Russian citizens on Russian territory, after earlier handing Twitter <TWTR.N> an identical fine for the same offence.

(Reporting by Polina Ivanova, Writing by Alexander Marrow; Editing by Edmund Blair)

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