Russia calls for Tinder's application to share its user data with the government

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Russo Madzur, Russia's communications regulator, said in a statement that Russia had added an image-messaging application Tinder To the list of applications whose data are to be shared with the Russian government and intelligence.

According to the statement, the Russian government will obligate the developed company to apply to the preservation of data, messages, images and videos of Russian users for up to a year, and to submit to the legal authorities upon request.

Officials insideTinder, They received a request from the Russian government stating that they had the right to review the application data, and the company's commitment was fully recorded.

Tinder is one of the most important social networking applications in Russia. It was established in 2012 and by the end of 2015 it reached 50 million users around the world.