Google has been fined 3.8 million rubles in Moscow for the publication of the personal data of Russian soldiers and instructions to give up on YouTube.
The Court of Moscow recognized Google guilty of publishing the personal data of Russian soldiers who died during the war in Ukraine and imposed a fine of 3.8 million rubles (about EUR 40,600). This results from a court decision to which TASS appealed on Monday, TASR reports, according to Reuters, according to Reuters.
According to the court documents, the video was published on the Youtube platform, which belongs to Google, published information on the losses of Russian soldiers in Ukraine, as well as their personal data. The spread of this information is prohibited in Russia. According to TASS, one of the reasons for the decision to impose a fine was to publish instructions for Russian soldiers on YouTube on how to give up. In the past, the Moscow Court has been fining Google several times for administrative offenses.
According to Reuters, Russia has been ordering technological platforms based abroad for several years to remove the content it considers illegal. For example, what Moscow describes as “false information” about the war in Ukraine. When he discovers that companies do not comply with these rules, it imposes small fines.
Kremlin chief Vladimir Putin accused Google last December of being a tool used by the US government of the then President Joe Biden to earn political points, Reuters wrote.
