On December 17, the lower chamber of the Russian Parliament passed legislation that would change the effective date of Russia’s new law requiring local storage of Russian citizens’ personal data from September 2016 to September 2015. Hogan Lovells' Chronical of Data Protection reports that impacted businesses hoped the law would not go into effect until 2016 because of practical considerations that would require the reworking of IT systems to meet the deadline. The Federation Council and president must now approve the change, which would mean businesses “will lose a year of reviewing and implemented their compliance obligations under the law,” the report states.
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