German agencies on a recent case with Gisele Pelicot, revealed a Telegram group with up to 70,000 members sharing methods of sexual assault https://redd.it/1hpnnqp @r_Damnthatsinteresting
German agencies on a recent case with Gisele Pelicot, revealed a Telegram group with up to 70,000 members sharing methods of sexual assault https://redd.it/1hpnnqp @r_Damnthatsinteresting
"There is a significant risk of insider threat or hacking of Telegram systems that could expose all of these chats to the Russian government," said Eva Galperin with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, which has called for Telegram to improve its privacy practices. 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. Just days after Russia invaded Ukraine, Durov wrote that Telegram was "increasingly becoming a source of unverified information," and he worried about the app being used to "incite ethnic hatred." READ MORE He floated the idea of restricting the use of Telegram in Ukraine and Russia, a suggestion that was met with fierce opposition from users. Shortly after, Durov backed off the idea.
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