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Russian tech giant fined for refusing to grant FSB round-the-clock access to its smart home system
In the first known case of its kind, a Moscow court has fined Russian tech giant Yandex 10,000 rubles (€107) for refusing to provide the Federal Security Service (FSB) with round-the-clock remote access to information on its smart home system, Alice , independent media outlet Agentstvo reported on Thursday.
In the first known case of its kind, a Moscow court has fined Russian tech giant Yandex 10,000 rubles (€107) for refusing to provide the Federal Security Service (FSB) with round-the-clock remote access to information on its smart home system, Alice, independent media outlet Agentstvo reported on Thursday. Sources told state-affiliated business daily Vedomosti that Yandex had already repeatedly refused to provide information to the FSB, which they said was partly due to the small fines issued when viewed against the cost of the equipment that would be necessary to comply with FSB demands. Yevgeny Smirnov from human rights NGO First Department told Agentstvo that the security forces trying to gain access to information from Alice was a new phenomenon.
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