OREANDA-NEWS The Magistrate's Court of the Tagansky District of Moscow found Twitch guilty of an administrative offense. It is reported that the refused to localize the data of Russian users on the territory of the country.

The Court announced the following verdict: "Twitch Interactive, Inc is found guilty of an offense under part 8 of Article 13.11 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation (non-compliance of the operator's obligation to ensure the recording, systematization, accumulation and storage of personal data of Russian citizens using databases located on the territory of the Russian Federation when collecting personal data)". Twitch is also obliged to pay a fine of 2 million rubles.

Video streaming service Twitch specializes in computer games and cybersport tournaments.

Roskomnadzor reported that the storage of personal data of Russian citizens was localized by about 600 representative offices of foreign companies in the Russian Federation. Apple, Microsoft, Samsung, PayPal, Booking and LG were named among the companies that had localized data of their Russian users.

LinkedIn was blocked on the territory of Russia after violating requirements for data localization. In 2016, the court satisfied the corresponding claim of Roskomnadzor.