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Russian Tech Giant Yandex Handed Over User Data in 85 Percent of Government Requests
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Russian tech giant Yandex complied with a record number of law enforcement requests to disclose citizen data over the past year, The Moscow Times reported on June 16.
The company shared user information in 93,647 instances, fulfilling 85 percent of all government applications received throughout 2025, the publication noted. This marks a sharp increase from 2024, when Yandex approved 57,434 requests, which constituted 74 percent of the total inquiries, according to the report.
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Most of the government requests targeted the company’s ride-hailing and transportation services, including taxi, delivery, carsharing, and electric scooter rentals. The Moscow Times added that the company complied even more frequently with requests involving its food delivery applications.
Concurrently, the company reduced its compliance with consumer requests regarding privacy and data removal, the journalists noted. Users requested the deletion of nearly 10,500 links from search results under the right to be forgotten legal framework, but Yandex approved only 39 percent of those submissions.
The surge in state data disclosures followed a massive expansion of military recruitment efforts across the Yandex platform. It had previously generated over 1 billion military recruitment ad impressions for the Russian Ministry of Digital Development throughout 2024, according to an earlier report.
Those campaigns expanded fivefold to target domestic users with financial incentives while drawing millions of views across neighboring countries, including Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, and Belarus.
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