In late August, Telegram CEO Pavel Durov was arrested in France on an arrest warrant for lack of moderation on Telegram. It has now been reported that the messaging app will share IP address and phone numbers users’ mobile phones if required by authorities.
Telegram has been ranked as the number one app when it comes to privacy and has always been the recommended app to know that no one will be able to review or “peek” into the messages that occur between two people. One of its biggest attractions disappears And Bloomberg, which first reported the change in its guidelines, cites that the app was known to ignore requests for information about criminal suspects.
Durov not only announced that he would share user data if required by authorities, but he also began to using artificial intelligence as a team of people to remove problematic content from search results. In fact, Telegram CEO is asking for users’ help in reporting dangerous and illegal content to help the team.
Telegram founder and CEO Pavel Durov.
Reuters
Now it remains to be seen Whether these changes will affect Telegram’s popularity which has been a space of intimacy for many. And here a point of conflict is generated in an open debate about the limits of the confidentiality of the digital conversation between two people and if it should have the same level of protection as that of the protection of their home, a space always protected.
Anyway, the application offers different tools to send messages that disappear at the same time, the possibility of encrypting them end to end or even the possibility of using the service without a SIM card depending on Engadget.
Durov himself is now five million euro bailand in his first statements after his release, he said the rapid growth in users on his messaging app meant criminals could abuse the platform.
SO this space that Telegram had becomeWhether it is an application for maximum privacy, a service by opposition movements to authoritarian regimes or, as in recent years, by groups of criminals and cybercriminals, it can be said that this is already a thing of the past. A day of enormous change that, as mentioned, we will have to see what it means for the most used messaging platform in Europe behind WhatsApp.
