Russia uses Snowden leaks to justify Internet crackdown

Sergei Zhelezhyak, deputy speaker of the Russian Duma, and Ruslan Gattarov, head of the Federation Council’s Information Policy Committee, have both called for limitations on placing Russian data — both personal and governmental — on foreign servers.

Konstantin Dolgov, the human rights commissioner for Russia’s Foreign Ministry, said the Kremlin is looking to ” take protective measures to plug leaks of online national security information,” according to The Free Beacon.

“U.S. officials said the officials’ comments are part of a campaign by Moscow to use the disclosures from Snowden to warn that social media poses national security dangers,” the Free Beacon reports.