Apple Fined About $216,000 by Russian Court for Refusing to Store User iCloud Data in Russia

Russia has been asking Apple to store user iCloud data related to Russian citizens in the country. According to a news report from Interfax, Apple appears to be refusing to comply with this requirement.

Apple has been fined 2 million rubles (approximately $216,000) by a Russian court for non-compliance. Since the events in Russia's Ukraine, Russian courts have increasingly clashed with (mostly U.S.) large technology companies over content censorship and data control issues.

Apple's iCloud data is typically (encrypted) stored on third-party cloud storage services such as Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure, and it was previously reported that Apple is Google's largest cloud customer, storing more than 8EB of data on its platform.