Telegram will now provide IP addresses and phone numbers in response to legal requests

https://www.engadget.com/apps/telegram-will-now-provide-ip-addresses-and-phone-numbers-in-response-to-legal-requests-170300911.html

7 Comments

  1. This should be interesting… wonder who the current targets are to prompt this. Serious rug-pull.

  2. AmateurishExpertise on

    The French government really just put a CEO in a dungeon until he agreed to betray his users’ privacy to them.

    We’ve crossed the Rubicon, folks.

  3. Prince-of-Privacy on

    “The decision is a major about-face for the privacy-focused messaging app.”

    Telegram.is.not.a.private.messenger.

    All chats – except so-called ‘secret chats’ – are readable by Telegram. Signal – which actually is a private messenger – on the other hand, has end-to-end-encryption enabled for every chat, call, videocall etc.

    It’s embarassing and irresponsible for media, and especially for a tech magazine, to call Telegram a “privacy-focused” messaging app.