Russian websites may be required to adopt General Data
Protection Regulation (GDPR)-style cookie policies and use cookie
banners because of new case law. Russian courts have recently
decided that the personal data law should apply to web analytics
and suppressed access to a website that failed to meet the relevant
data protection requirements. This judgement definitely makes the
web cookies less 'tasty' than ever before.
First-instance judgement
Last year, the Russian Data Protection Authority, Roskomnadzor,
brought an action against a website for a number of data breaches.
Tagansky First Instance District Court of Moscow sustained the
claim and decided that the website owner, among other things,
had
