Actually, I agree with this. If you take the Internet and combine this with cell phones and social media what you get is something that tracks everything a person does all the time every day as long as they are near their phone or their computer is on because microphones on computers and smartphones and all cell phones are microphones that can be accessed by people who know how to all over the world at any or all moments. So it makes sense that Putin feels victimized by this even though there are thousands to millions in Russia and around the world that know how to do this and do do this every single day around the world.
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Putin said that the internet originally was a “CIA project” and “is still developing as such”.
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MOSCOW: President Vladimir Putin on Thursday called the internet a CIA
project and made comments about Russia's biggest search engine Yandex,
sending the company's shares plummeting.
The Kremlin has been anxious to exert greater control over the internet, which opposition activists — barred from national television — have used to promote their ideas and organize protests.
Russia's parliament, this week, passed a law requiring social media websites to keep their servers in Russia and save all information about their users for at least half a year. Also, businessmen close to Putin now control Russia's leading social media network, VKontakte.
Speaking on Thursday at a media forum in St Petersburg, Putin said that the internet originally was a "CIA project" and "is still developing as such".
To resist that influence, Putin said, Russia needs to "fight for its interests" online.
A Russian blogger complained to Putin that foreign websites and Yandex, the web search engine which is bigger in Russia than Google, are storing information on servers abroad, which could be undermining Russia's security.
In his reply, Putin mentioned unspecified pressure that was exerted on Yandex in its early years and chided the company for its registration in the Netherlands "not only for tax reasons but for other considerations, too".
Although Putin's comments didn't include any specific threats to Yandex, one of Russia's most successful tech companies, its shares plunged by 5 per cent at the Nasdaq's opening on Thursday.
In a statement on Thursday, Yandex said that the company got registered in the Netherlands "solely due to the specifics of corporate law", not because of the low taxes there and added that its core business is based in Russia and "practically all the taxes are paid in Russia".
Reacting to Putin's claims that Yandex was under "pressure", the company said it got its first investments from international funds and investors, "which is the usual practice for any online startup in any country".
The Kremlin has been anxious to exert greater control over the internet, which opposition activists — barred from national television — have used to promote their ideas and organize protests.
Russia's parliament, this week, passed a law requiring social media websites to keep their servers in Russia and save all information about their users for at least half a year. Also, businessmen close to Putin now control Russia's leading social media network, VKontakte.
Speaking on Thursday at a media forum in St Petersburg, Putin said that the internet originally was a "CIA project" and "is still developing as such".
To resist that influence, Putin said, Russia needs to "fight for its interests" online.
A Russian blogger complained to Putin that foreign websites and Yandex, the web search engine which is bigger in Russia than Google, are storing information on servers abroad, which could be undermining Russia's security.
In his reply, Putin mentioned unspecified pressure that was exerted on Yandex in its early years and chided the company for its registration in the Netherlands "not only for tax reasons but for other considerations, too".
Although Putin's comments didn't include any specific threats to Yandex, one of Russia's most successful tech companies, its shares plunged by 5 per cent at the Nasdaq's opening on Thursday.
In a statement on Thursday, Yandex said that the company got registered in the Netherlands "solely due to the specifics of corporate law", not because of the low taxes there and added that its core business is based in Russia and "practically all the taxes are paid in Russia".
Reacting to Putin's claims that Yandex was under "pressure", the company said it got its first investments from international funds and investors, "which is the usual practice for any online startup in any country".
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