Russia to block LinkedIn after court ruling on user data

Business-focused social network LinkedIn faces being blocked in Russia after a court ruled it broke a law on data storage.
Moscow city court spokeswoman Ulyana Solopova tells The Associated Press that the court rejected an appeal today by LinkedIn against a district court's decision that the company had broken a law that requires personal data on Russian citizens to be stored on servers within Russia.
Solopova says LinkedIn can appeal Thursday's ruling. The case was brought by Roskomnadzor, the Russian state telecommunications and media regulator.
LinkedIn's website was still accessible on Moscow internet connections as of today afternoon, though Roskomnadzor representative Vadim Ampelonsky told the Interfax news agency that LinkedIn would be blocked as soon as the agency received the full text of the court's ruling, likely next week.