Telegram to hand over IP addresses and user data: Are Russian military secrets at risk?
Telegram has captured the spotlight as it has decided to handover the internet IP addresses and phone numbers of the users to the authorities on the basis of the valid legal requests.
Change experienced by Telegram
Telegram has undergone a significant change regarding the user privacy. It will cooperate with authorities to give users' internet IP addresses and phone numbers over valid requests that need to be legal, such as search warrants. This policy demonstrates that the messaging platform will be able to disclose users’ internet IP addresses and phone numbers when law enforcement agencies are requiring those things.
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Telegram’s embattled founder and chief executive Pavel Durov gave a statement that changes are coming to the terms of service and privacy policy of the messaging app to stop the worst activities of criminals. The app has got some changes after some weeks of his arrest in France on charges of failing to act against criminals using his app. He also told that 99.999 percent of Telegram users are not associated with crime, but 0.001 percent of users started doing illegal activities and creating a bad image of the app, as well as the billion users are involved in risks without doing anything, according to a report in The Telegraph.
From criticism to banning
39-year-old billionaire Durov who has passports to Russia, France, and the United Arab Emirates claimed that Telegram has
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