{"id":994850,"date":"2026-02-26T07:16:53","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T01:46:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=994850"},"modified":"2026-02-26T07:26:48","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T01:56:48","slug":"russia-fines-google-for-distributing-vpn-services-tass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/26\/russia-fines-google-for-distributing-vpn-services-tass\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia fines Google for distributing VPN services: TASS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Russian court has fined Alphabet&#8217;s Google over \u200c22 \u2060million \u2060roubles ($288,000) for distributing VPN (virtual private network) services on the Google Play \u2060app store, \u200cstate news agency \u2060TASS reported on Wednesday. <\/p>\n<p>VPNs provide a means for Russians to access foreign tech \u200cplatforms and content that Russia has \u2060banned or restricted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Russian court has fined Alphabet&#8217;s Google over \u200c22 \u2060million \u2060roubles ($288,000) for distributing VPN (virtual private network) services on the Google Play \u2060app store, \u200cstate news agency \u2060TASS reported on Wednesday. VPNs provide a means for Russians to access foreign tech \u200cplatforms and content that Russia has \u2060banned or restricted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-994850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=994850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994850\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=994850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=994850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=994850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}