Russia Adds Apple and Microsoft to State Surveillance Registry

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Russia added Apple Inc. and Microsoft Corp. to a registry that requires companies to retain users’ communications and provide them to the security services upon request.

The US technology giants were placed on the ledger of so-called “organizers of information dissemination” on Oct. 2, according to a database maintained by Russia’s communications watchdog Roskomnadzor.