On August 14, the messenger of an entrepreneur and programmer Pavel Durov,

Telegram

, completely updated the privacy policy. According to the innovations, the messenger's management now has the right to pass IP-addresses and phone numbers of users suspected of terrorism to the special services. Such actions are possible if law enforcers send a request to Telegram, attaching a court decision to it.

Durov commented on the decision in his

Telegram channel

:

" Regardless of whether we are ever going to use this right [providing info on terrorists], such a measure should make Telegram less attractive for those who are sending out terrorist propaganda here. "

According to the creator of Telegram, changes in the confidentiality policy primarily relate, to the entry into force of the European Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). They are unlikely to cause the Russian authorities to unblock the messenger in the country, as the FSB needs access to correspondence of all users .

" In this regard, we do not consider any appeals from Russian services, and our privacy policy does not concern the situation in Russia, so we continue to resist, " he concluded.

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