The Maxima Legal's IP/IT team prepared an overview of current changes in the regulation of personal data in Russia for the international resource OneTrust DataGuidance

Specifically for the international resource OneTrust DataGuidance Maxim Ali, Partner , Head of IP/IT practice at Maxima Legal and Olga Novinskaya, junior associate at Maxima Legal, prepared an overview of the federal law regulating the activities of foreign IT-companies in Russia, and told about the tightening of legislation on personal data.…


Olga Novinskaya has prepared an overview of Russian jurisprudence on Internet memes for ILN IP Insider

Olga Novinskaya, Junior Associate of IP/IT practice at Maxima Legal, spoke about Russian court practice related to Internet memes especially for the ILN IP Insider blog. Thus, the expert illustrated the positions of Rospatent  (the Federal Service for Intellectual Property) and the Intellectual Rights Court regarding the possibility…


Olga Novinskaya spoke with RIA Nedvizhimost fake government websites,and how to recognise them

Among the most innocuous scenarios of accessing a website mimicking the page of a government organization are paying for a free service, receiving a low-quality service or not receiving it at all, Olga Novinskaya, junior lawyer at Maxima Legal, told RIA Nedvizhimost. According to the expert, more serious risks are associated with leaving the…


The team from the IP/IT Practice at Maxima Legal has summarized for OneTrust DataGuidance key changes and trends in personal data regulation in Russia

The Federal Law of 27 July 2006 No. 152-FZ on Personal Data ('the Law on Personal Data') came into effect more than 15 years ago. However, changes to legislation in the sphere of data protection are still being introduced at a rapid rate. The past two years demonstrate a general tightening of data protection regulation, particularly in relation to…


Olga Novinskaya has written for an international legal blogs about the latest changes in the regulation of personal data in Russia

Olga Novinskaya, junior associate of IP/IT Practice at Maxima Legal has written to ILN IP Insider and LexBlog international legal blogs an article about the most significant Russian news in the field of personal data regulation. In particular, the expert spoke about the draft laws to combat abuses in the collection of consumer personal data,…


Olga Novinskaya has outlined the prospects of consumer extremism of covid-dissidents for the DP

The first process on a new type of consumer extremism may start in St Petersburg. A man without a mask refused to be served in a store, and now he demands financial compensation for moral damages, appealing to the law on consumer protection. It should be noted that similar cases have already been considered by the courts of other regions that…