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Pavel Durov, Telegram's co-founder, said that the FSB's demands violated the constitutional rights of Russian citizens to the privacy of correspondence. [7] On 13 April 2018 Moscow's Tagansky District Court ruled, with immediate effect, on restricting access to Telegram in Russia . [8] [9] Telegram's appeal to the Russian Supreme Court was ...
The European Court of Human Rights made a ruling in a long-running case involving Telegram's encrypted messaging. The fight to protect encryption just got a boost in a ruling about Telegram and Russia
[36] [35] [37] Roskomnadzor had to abandon this approach, but failed to implement any other means to stop Russian users from accessing Telegram. In the end, Roskomnadzor and other government structures set up their own channels in the "outlawed" app. In mid-2020 Roskomnadzor officially gave up on trying to block Telegram. [38]
Telegram offers end-to-end encryption in voice and video calls, [10] and in optional private chats, which Telegram calls Secret Chats. Telegram also has social networking features, allowing users to post stories , create large public groups with up to 200,000 members, or share one-way updates to unlimited audiences in so-called channels.
Durov noted the app refused to hand over “encryption keys” to Russia, resulting in a ban there. The app also was banned in Iran after the app refused to block channels used by protesters, he said.
In theory, this means that even locked down messaging services like Telegram or WhatsApp aren't safe from prying eyes. Russia claims it can collect encryption keys Skip to main content
The newspaper Moskovskij Komsomolets said it feared that "Western intelligence services could obtain the messenger's encryption keys" and that "Telegram might become a tool of NATO" if Durov is forced by French prosecution and state law enforcement to de-encrypt chats that "contain a huge amount of vitally important, strategic information" so ...
Russia began to block access to Telegram in 2018. The action interrupted many third-party services, but had little effect on the availability of Telegram there.