MyHeritage, the large Israel-based family-tree and DNA genealogy service, announced that it was ceasing operations in Russia and that all of its Russian account data, including DNA tests, would be deleted on February 1, 2025.
MyHeritage explained that they were forced to suspend their services in Russia due to local legislation. Russian account holders were advised to export their data before it was deleted.
In January 2022, MyHeritage was fined one and a half million rubles for refusing to store data about Russians in Russia.
The Russian law on personal data was adopted in 2015. It obliges both Russian and foreign companies to store user data on servers in Russia. A major service blocked for violating the rule was the social network LinkedIn. ♦
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