Day: September 23, 2024

Georgian Dream at the 2024 elections
Georgian sociologist Iago Kachkachishvili outlines several failed electoral projects and intentions of the ruling party Georgian Dream.
- The intention to declare Orthodoxy the state religion faced resistance from the church itself, which prefers the current state of affairs.
- The statement that restoring Georgia’s territorial integrity should begin with an apology to the Ossetians: according to the sociologist, such empty apologies from Bidzina Ivanishvili would appear caricatured if they weren’t tied to national traumas, provoking not laughter but outrage among voters.
- The law on “foreign agents” aimed to be “whitewashed,” emphasizing transparency and its benefits, but only 2-3% of organizations believed it.
- Georgian Dream appeals to the claim that their rating is no lower than 60%, and for months, they have circulated data from just one research organization, which has not been confirmed by anyone else.
Georgian Dream at the 2024 elections
The Personal Data Protection Service of Georgia reported on September 23 that Ridetech Georgia Ltd., a provider of Yandex Taxi services, illegally transferred the personal data of the Georgian users of its services to Russia.
Ridetech was found guilty of violating the Georgian law on the protection of personal data and fined GEL 4000 (approximately USD 1465). The Service also ordered the company to cease transferring personal data to Russia.
According to the inquest by the Personal Data Protection Service, the personal data of Yandex app users—both customers and drivers—was processed on servers located in Russia, which received the users’ IP addresses. “We are dealing with the transfer (access) of IP addresses to another country,” the Service said.
The service noted that Ridetech requested permission to transfer personal data to Russia before the inspection, but that request was denied.
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