Der Messengerdienst Telegram passt die Datenschutzrichtlinie an und wird künftig bei Behördenanfragen Nutzerdaten weitergeben. Zuletzt stieg der Druck auf die Plattform, Gründer Pawel Durow wurde in Frankreich festgenommen. Welche Folgen die Entscheidung für politische Dissidenten hat, muss sich noch zeigen.
Der Messengerdienst Telegram passt die Datenschutzrichtlinie an und wird künftig bei Behördenanfragen Nutzerdaten weitergeben. Zuletzt stieg der Druck auf die Plattform, Gründer Pawel Durow wurde in Frankreich festgenommen. Welche Folgen die Entscheidung für politische Dissidenten hat, muss sich noch zeigen.
Telegram has become more interventionist over time, and has steadily increased its efforts to shut down these accounts. But this has also meant that the company has also engaged with lawmakers more generally, although it maintains that it doesn’t do so willingly. For instance, in September 2021, Telegram reportedly blocked a chat bot in support of (Putin critic) Alexei Navalny during Russia’s most recent parliamentary elections. Pavel Durov was quoted at the time saying that the company was obliged to follow a “legitimate” law of the land. He added that as Apple and Google both follow the law, to violate it would give both platforms a reason to boot the messenger from its stores. On Telegram’s website, it says that Pavel Durov “supports Telegram financially and ideologically while Nikolai (Duvov)’s input is technological.” Currently, the Telegram team is based in Dubai, having moved around from Berlin, London and Singapore after departing Russia. Meanwhile, the company which owns Telegram is registered in the British Virgin Islands. And while money initially moved into stocks in the morning, capital moved out of safe-haven assets. The price of the 10-year Treasury note fell Friday, sending its yield up to 2% from a March closing low of 1.73%. At the start of 2018, the company attempted to launch an Initial Coin Offering (ICO) which would enable it to enable payments (and earn the cash that comes from doing so). The initial signals were promising, especially given Telegram’s user base is already fairly crypto-savvy. It raised an initial tranche of cash – worth more than a billion dollars – to help develop the coin before opening sales to the public. Unfortunately, third-party sales of coins bought in those initial fundraising rounds raised the ire of the SEC, which brought the hammer down on the whole operation. In 2020, officials ordered Telegram to pay a fine of $18.5 million and hand back much of the cash that it had raised. So, uh, whenever I hear about Telegram, it’s always in relation to something bad. What gives?
from br
