“Pavel Durov, founder and CEO of messaging app Telegram, claimed that his company has been disclosing user information since 2018. This revelation comes on the heels of Durov’s recent arrest for allegedly enabling criminal activities on the platform. Since his release, he first claimed that Telegram would crack down on illegal material, but he clarified those comments today.”
“Whenever we received a properly formed legal request via relevant communication lines, we would verify it and disclose the IP addresses/phone numbers of dangerous criminals. This process had been in place long before last week,” Durov stated.”
kirtash93 on
See you in prison guys! Forced HODL coming for me!
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tldr; Telegram CEO Pavel Durov admitted that since 2018, the platform has been disclosing user data, including IP addresses and phone numbers, to law enforcement. This revelation has raised concerns among crypto security experts about user privacy and the potential undermining of decentralization. Despite these concerns, Toncoin’s price has remained relatively stable. Durov emphasized that Telegram’s cooperation with law enforcement has been consistent, but the frequency of requests has increased recently.
*This summary is auto generated by a bot and not meant to replace reading the original article. As always, DYOR.
tungfa on
as their “source” for this article they refer to a telegram post in channel “Du Rove” (13 Mill + followers) ,this seems to be Pavel and his channel!
Post reads:
(in article click on “claimed” 1st sentence)
📰 My previous post may have seemed to announce a major shift in how Telegram works. But in reality, little has changed.
🌐 Since 2018, Telegram has been able to disclose IP addresses/phone numbers of criminals to authorities, according to our Privacy Policy in most countries.
⚖️ Whenever we received a properly formed legal request via relevant communication lines, we would verify it and disclose the IP addresses/phone numbers of dangerous criminals. This process had been in place long before last week.
🤖 Our @transparency bot demonstrates exactly that. This bot shows the number of processed requests for user data.
✉️ For example, in Brazil, we disclosed data for 75 legal requests in Q1 (January-March) 2024, 63 in Q2, and 65 in Q3. In India, our largest market, we satisfied 2461 legal requests in Q1, 2151 in Q2, and 2380 in Q3.
📈 In Europe, there was an uptick in the number of valid legal requests we received in Q3. This increase was caused by the fact that more EU authorities started to use the correct communication line for their requests, the one mandated by the EU DSA law. Information about this contact point has been publicly available to anyone who viewed the Telegram website or googled “Telegram EU address for law enforcement” since early 2024.
🤝 To reduce confusion, last week, we streamlined and unified our privacy policy across different countries. But our core principles haven’t changed. We’ve always strived to comply with relevant local laws — as long as they didn’t go against our values of freedom and privacy.
🛡 Telegram was built to protect activists and ordinary people from corrupt governments and corporations — we do not allow criminals to abuse our platform or evade justice.
hiorea on
Privacy app has no privacy. Welcome to 21st century
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“Pavel Durov, founder and CEO of messaging app Telegram, claimed that his company has been disclosing user information since 2018. This revelation comes on the heels of Durov’s recent arrest for allegedly enabling criminal activities on the platform. Since his release, he first claimed that Telegram would crack down on illegal material, but he clarified those comments today.”
“Whenever we received a properly formed legal request via relevant communication lines, we would verify it and disclose the IP addresses/phone numbers of dangerous criminals. This process had been in place long before last week,” Durov stated.”
See you in prison guys! Forced HODL coming for me!
tldr; Telegram CEO Pavel Durov admitted that since 2018, the platform has been disclosing user data, including IP addresses and phone numbers, to law enforcement. This revelation has raised concerns among crypto security experts about user privacy and the potential undermining of decentralization. Despite these concerns, Toncoin’s price has remained relatively stable. Durov emphasized that Telegram’s cooperation with law enforcement has been consistent, but the frequency of requests has increased recently.
*This summary is auto generated by a bot and not meant to replace reading the original article. As always, DYOR.
as their “source” for this article they refer to a telegram post in channel “Du Rove” (13 Mill + followers) ,this seems to be Pavel and his channel!
Post reads:
(in article click on “claimed” 1st sentence)
📰 My previous post may have seemed to announce a major shift in how Telegram works. But in reality, little has changed.
🌐 Since 2018, Telegram has been able to disclose IP addresses/phone numbers of criminals to authorities, according to our Privacy Policy in most countries.
⚖️ Whenever we received a properly formed legal request via relevant communication lines, we would verify it and disclose the IP addresses/phone numbers of dangerous criminals. This process had been in place long before last week.
🤖 Our @transparency bot demonstrates exactly that. This bot shows the number of processed requests for user data.
✉️ For example, in Brazil, we disclosed data for 75 legal requests in Q1 (January-March) 2024, 63 in Q2, and 65 in Q3. In India, our largest market, we satisfied 2461 legal requests in Q1, 2151 in Q2, and 2380 in Q3.
📈 In Europe, there was an uptick in the number of valid legal requests we received in Q3. This increase was caused by the fact that more EU authorities started to use the correct communication line for their requests, the one mandated by the EU DSA law. Information about this contact point has been publicly available to anyone who viewed the Telegram website or googled “Telegram EU address for law enforcement” since early 2024.
🤝 To reduce confusion, last week, we streamlined and unified our privacy policy across different countries. But our core principles haven’t changed. We’ve always strived to comply with relevant local laws — as long as they didn’t go against our values of freedom and privacy.
🛡 Telegram was built to protect activists and ordinary people from corrupt governments and corporations — we do not allow criminals to abuse our platform or evade justice.
Privacy app has no privacy. Welcome to 21st century
Friendly tip. Buy btc before going to prison