The NSA isn't the only one to play the game.
Posted by: Timothy Weaver on 10/22/2013 03:24 PM
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The Russian government is requesting data on users of the internet mail company Mail.ru. Mail.ru is a major player for web portal, social network and email service. It is roughly comparable with Yahoo! in Russian language markets.
Anton Malginov, Mail.ru Group’s legal service, argues in a statement: “Information about who the user is in correspondence with for a given period is considered confidential correspondence and is protected by Section 2, Article 23 of the Russian Constitution. The Mail.ru Group has no right to disclose this correspondence without a court order."
According to Alexia, Mail.ru's the fifth most visited site in Russia. The spying agency FSB operates a net surveillance scheme called SORM-2 that's every bit as aggressive as the NSA's infamous PRISM program.
Anton Malginov, Mail.ru Group’s legal service, argues in a statement: “Information about who the user is in correspondence with for a given period is considered confidential correspondence and is protected by Section 2, Article 23 of the Russian Constitution. The Mail.ru Group has no right to disclose this correspondence without a court order."
According to Alexia, Mail.ru's the fifth most visited site in Russia. The spying agency FSB operates a net surveillance scheme called SORM-2 that's every bit as aggressive as the NSA's infamous PRISM program.
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