Roskomnadzor, the Russian data protection authority, has released its 2017 inspection plans for local companies to measure their compliance with the country's data privacy requirements, Hogan Lovells' Chronicle of Data Protection reports. "As an example of how an inspection proceeds, Roskomnadzor conducted a planned inspection of Microsoft’s Russian affiliate in the spring of 2016, issuing an inspection report requiring that Microsoft eliminate violations revealed by the inspection by October 2016," the report states. Microsoft sent a compliance report and received Roskomnadzor's support of its compliance in November 2016. The plans include inspecting "a number of prominent multinational and Russian companies," the report adds.
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