Command Telegram messenger updated privacy policy, adding a section on cooperation with law enforcement agencies the ability to disclose user data.
The documentation now States: “If the Telegram receives the court order which confirms that you are suspected of terrorism, we may disclose your IP address, and telephone number of the relevant authorities”. However, it is also noted that while that never happened.
As noted by Pavel Chikov, a lawyer and head of the international human rights group “Agora”, representing the interests of the Telegram, the changes are the result of the case of the FSB against the Telegram, but did not appear in the result of negotiations with the authorities. He said: “I would say that this is the right direction. We as representatives of the Telegram never deny the right and even obligation of authorities to combat terrorism, by contrast, offered just such a civilized way — subpoena in exchange for the disclosure. And not even a correspondence, but only IP phone.”
We will remind, lock, Telegram in Russia, commenced on 16 April 2018 on the basis of a court decision handed down on April 13. In an attempt to limit Telegram, Roskomnadzor began to “beat the squares” at the peak of the number of blocked IP addresses reached about 18 million.
Among the “came under attack” EN masse attended the network address Google and Amazon. The interruptions complained users messenger Viber, music service Spotify, social network of Classmates, various online games, delivery services and taxis, as well as many others not implicated in Telegram services.
Gradually Roskomnadzor began to exclude certain subnets from the lock, including Google and Amazon. According to the site usher2.club, which keeps track of the number of actual IP addresses from the discharge of Roskomnadzor, at the time of writing the news the number of blocked IP addresses has dropped to approximately 3.7 million