Telegram Hands U.S. Authorities Data on Thousands of Users
AI summary of the linked articleTelegram provided U.S. authorities with data on 2,253 users in 2024, according to newly released data from the company. The number of fulfilled requests rose sharply after French authorities arrested Telegram CEO Pavel Durov in August, partly over the company's unwillingness to provide user data in a child abuse investigation. Telegram's Transparency Reports bot told 404 Media that it fulfilled 14 requests for IP addresses and/or phone numbers from the United States between January 1 and September 30, 2024, affecting 108 users. For the full year, it fulfilled 900 such requests, meaning the number rose sharply between October and December. |
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3 comments Wondering how many of them are crypto users. Among my friends the only Telegram users are people who work in crypto or people who follow the Ukrainian/Gaza war footages mishaSubmitter I guess there’s a whole world out there. I think there quite some users also in Russia and Ukraine actually. But anyone that has been paying attention lately, folks who want to have a more private conversation should ditch Telegram asap and start using Signal. I have been raging about the non encrypted fake privacy on tg for years. Even after them handing over data to France I did not see any change in the support of tg by anyone in crypto |
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