Maria Ostashenko and Anastasia Petrova prepared a publication for One Trust Data Guidance

ALRUD Data Protection and Cybersecurity practice experts, Maria Ostashenko, Partner, and Anastasia Petrova, Of councel, prepared a chapter about ****Cookies & Similar Technologies**** in Russia for the international collection One Trust Data Guidance, dedicated to data protection in the financial sector.

This article refers to:

• Cookies are considered personal data in Russia.

• Third-party cookies require specific legal basis.

• Data processing agreements are mandatory.

• Cross-border data transfers have strict regulations.

• Cookie retention follows the principle of purpose limitation.

• Initial processing of Russian citizens' data must be performed in a Russian database.

• Enforcement actions focus on fines and website blocking.

• Lack of specific cookie case law.

Publication is available here.