The Russian authorities sharply elevated digital management over residents within the first half of 2025, and state requests for private knowledge of Yandex customers elevated. The corporate transferred knowledge in 42.3 thousand circumstances, which is 44% greater than final yr.

Within the first half of 2025, Russian authorities sharply elevated digital management over residents. State requests for private knowledge of Yandex customers, particularly these utilizing transportation and supply companies, have elevated. That is reported by UNN with regards to the Overseas Intelligence Service of Ukraine (FISU).

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It’s famous that in Yandex's transparency report, the variety of state requests for private knowledge of customers of the corporate's companies reached file ranges, growing by 48% in comparison with final yr.

Through the specified interval, the corporate acquired tens of 1000’s of requests from regulation enforcement businesses and state our bodies, and knowledge was transferred in 42.3 thousand circumstances, which is 44% greater than final yr. Most frequently, the authorities demanded details about customers of "ridetech" companies – these are taxis, supply, carsharing, and electrical scooters. There have been 35.8 thousand such requests, which signifies an try at whole monitoring of individuals's actions and every day lives

– stories the Overseas Intelligence Service of Ukraine.

Regardless of this, the share of happy requests has hardly modified – 78% versus 80% a yr earlier, which signifies a persistently excessive stage of cooperation between the platform and state constructions.

As well as, Yandex acquired virtually 14,000 requests to take away hyperlinks in accordance with the so-called "proper to be forgotten" regulation, 73% of which had been happy.

This mechanism is actively utilized by regulation enforcement officers, politicians, and businessmen, making an attempt to cover inconvenient supplies and journalistic investigations from the general public

– the submit says.

"In actual fact, the state of affairs demonstrates an additional escalation of state intervention in Russia's digital area: management is tightening, the area of privateness is narrowing, and the Web is more and more turning right into a device of surveillance and censorship," the FISU added.

Recall

Russia is aggressively forcing residents to make use of the state messenger Max, which is turning into a device of management. College students face threats for refusing to put in the applying, and within the occupied territories, Max solely works with Russian and Belarusian SIM playing cards, isolating Ukrainians.

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