Guest Author Bird & Bird, Anna Shashina, Partner

On March 1, 2021, substantial amendments to the Russian Federal Law on Personal Data (No. 152-FZ), implemented on July 27, 2006, came into effect (“Amendments”). The Amendments change the rules on processing of publicly disseminated personal data and affect businesses that publish or use personal data on the internet. In particular, employers who publish employee personal data on a website need to examine the Amendments and implement new consent requirements. Data subjects now have wider powers to control and authorize the processing of their data in the public domain. Data subjects also have a right to request that data operators that are disseminating their data (and any company down the data processing chain) cease transferring such data.

What Are the Key Amendments?