It is curious that Russia, one of the states most ready to invade personal privacy, also regulates the transfer of privacy to other countries providing a “sufficient level” of protection for personnel data. That is perhaps why two of the latest additions to Russian privacy regulator’s approved list seem so incongruous (with number of outstanding UN human rights concerns in parenthesis) – Costa Rica (227) and Kazakhstan (314). However, Russia (346) has itself only a marginally more awful human rights record than countries the European Union (EU) considers safe – such as France (307) and Hungary (306). It is also only slightly better than the USA (315). However, the EU country with the highest negative human rights rating in Europe from UN reports is not Russia, but Sweden (362).