Associate of the Dispute Resolution at Lidings Elizaveta Fursova and Associate of the Intellectual Property practice Roman Vlasov will take part in the 5th Student Law Forum at the Kutafin’s Moscow State Law Academy (MSLA). The event traditionally will take place at the University’s main building on 14-16 November, 2019. The main topic of this year’s Forum is Law in a Digital World.

Lidings’ Intellectual Property practice Associate Roman Vlasov will run a webinar on Using Personal Data of Clients: How to Handle and Avoid Claims from Roskomnadzor organized by Caselook.

On January 21, 2019, the National Data Protection Commission (CNIL) of France fined Google LLC for 50 million euros for violating the requirements of the GDPR. This is the largest penalty imposed on the GDPR since its entry into force on May 25, 2018 so far.

Lidings has become an official authorized provider of legal services for Participants and Residents of the Skolkovo Technopark.

On 1 November 2017 new art. 15.8 of the Federal Law “;On information, information technologies and information security” (hereinafter — the Law on Information) entered into force. It prohibits to provide access to forbidden websites by means of anonymous proxies or VPN services. The Law on Information obliges hosting providers to submit information about owners of anonymizers to Roskomnadzor (The Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology, and Mass Media). The owners of anonymizers have to accede to Register of forbidden websites and to restrict access to websites included in blacklist. In case of non-compliance with the Law on Information, Roskomnadzor can only block such anonymizer.