Telegram chief executive officer Pavel Durov made clear adjustments to the system’s personal privacy plan, highlighting that the messaging application has actually shared crooks’ IP addresses with authorities because 2018.
In an Oct. 2 blog post on his Telegram network, Durov clarified that recently’s plan upgrade intends to simplify and combine Telegram’s personal privacy method throughout various areas.
According to him, the brand-new upgrade would certainly enable the system to share individual IP addresses and telephone number with authorities in reaction to lawful demands.
This plan upgrade adheres to Durov’s current apprehension in France, where he dealt with claims connected to Telegram’s information methods. French authorities restrained him for stopping working to modest material and share individual information, triggering prevalent objection of the premises for his apprehension.
IP address sharing
Durov kept in mind that Telegram has actually continually shared crooks’ IP addresses and telephone number with authorities in nations like Brazil, India, and, a lot more just recently, different European countries.
He mentioned:
” Whenever we obtained a correctly developed lawful demand using appropriate interaction lines, we would certainly confirm it and divulge the IP addresses/phone varieties of hazardous crooks. This procedure had actually remained in area long prior to recently.”
He mentioned that these disclosures happen in reaction to official lawful demands sent via main interaction networks. In 2024, Telegram adhered to 203 demands in Brazil and 6,992 in India.
Durov likewise kept in mind a boost in lawful demands throughout the 3rd quarter of 2024. He associated this increase to European authorities properly making use of the ideal interaction networks.
He advanced that Telegram’s Openness Crawler, which supplies details on these demands, stays energetic in supplying updates on refined information disclosures.
Regardless of these updates, Durov highlighted that Telegram’s essential concepts stay undamaged. He repeated that the system still champs flexibility and personal privacy while adhering to appropriate regional regulations.
He ended:
” Telegram was constructed to secure lobbyists and regular individuals from corrupt federal governments and companies– we do not enable crooks to abuse our system or escape justice.”
