Source: TechPluto
According to Bloomberg, WhatsApp rival Telegram has agreed to share their user’s data including their IP addresses and phone numbers with authorities if prompted by a legal request. This comes barely weeks after Telegram’s CEO Pavel Darev was arrested in France, before he was eventually released.
This marks a dramatic change in Telegram’s policy, which historically has never been forthcoming in sharing the data of its users including even suspected criminals to authorities. The report further claims that Telegram will also improve its content moderation practices for taking down controversial content from its platform, something again that it has always been hesitant in the past.
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