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Nordic federal governments sign up with forces to safeguard information transfers

Nordic nations deepen their cooperation over cyber security amidst increased risk from neighbouring Russia

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  • Gerard O’Dwyer

Released: 11 Dec 2023 15:30

Nordic federal governments are strengthening cooperation with the goal of much better policing the cross-border transfer of individual information mined by the subsidiaries of Russian-owned business in their nations.

The cooperation forms part of the closer tracking of Russian-owned business throughout the area, with an unique concentrate on business that are participated in the mining and possible transfer of clients’ individual information to servers run by moms and dad groups in Russia.

The strengthening of inter-state Nordic cooperation occurs versus the background of pre-emptive actions, taken by the information security companies in Finland and Norway in August, to briefly suspend any transfer by Yango of individual information from their nationwide jurisdictions to servers in Russia owned by the taxi service business’s tech moms and dad Yandex, the so-called “Google of Russia”.

The short-lived restrictions executed by Finland and Norway in August, which ended on November 30, were triggered by legal reforms enacted in Russia in September that enables the nation’s federal security service,

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