The Moscow Arbitration Court approved the lawsuit filed by the DublGIS company against Google regarding the removal of the 2GIS application from Google Play in May 2023. writes about this RBC.
The company demanded the restoration of the application in Russia and the CIS countries, as well as the return of access to email. The court declared Google’s unilateral refusal to distribute the application invalid and ordered the company to restore the application.
It is not yet known whether Google will return 2GIS to its application. Lawyers say Google has repeatedly ignored court orders in similar disputes and failed to comply with requests to restore deleted apps.
On Google in the first half of January named Russian application “2GIS” is malicious. The security system of the Google Play application store began to identify the Russian navigation service as malicious. Users of the Russian service began to receive warnings from Google Play that the program was unsafe. In particular, the store’s security system claims that 2GIS is trying to access personal data such as SMS, photos, voice recordings and call recordings.
existed before clarified The amount of Google’s debt to Russia.