Бабушкин И.Ю., Астраханская область Беглов А.Д., Санкт-Петербург Бречалов А.В., Удмуртия Дегтярев М.В., Хабаровский край Кожемяко О.Н., Приморский край Лимаренко В.И., Сахалинская область Любимов Н.В., Рязанская область Махонин Д.Н., Пермский край Меликов С.А., Дагестан Моор А.В., Тюменская область Морозов С.И., Ульяновская область Паслер Д.В., Оренбургская область Радаев В.В., Саратовская область Уйба В.В., Коми Хабиров Р.Ф., Башкирия Цивилев С.Е., Кемеровская область
Бабушкин И.Ю., Астраханская область Беглов А.Д., Санкт-Петербург Бречалов А.В., Удмуртия Дегтярев М.В., Хабаровский край Кожемяко О.Н., Приморский край Лимаренко В.И., Сахалинская область Любимов Н.В., Рязанская область Махонин Д.Н., Пермский край Меликов С.А., Дагестан Моор А.В., Тюменская область Морозов С.И., Ульяновская область Паслер Д.В., Оренбургская область Радаев В.В., Саратовская область Уйба В.В., Коми Хабиров Р.Ф., Башкирия Цивилев С.Е., Кемеровская область
In 2014, Pavel Durov fled the country after allies of the Kremlin took control of the social networking site most know just as VK. Russia's intelligence agency had asked Durov to turn over the data of anti-Kremlin protesters. Durov refused to do so. Messages are not fully encrypted by default. That means the company could, in theory, access the content of the messages, or be forced to hand over the data at the request of a government. After fleeing Russia, the brothers founded Telegram as a way to communicate outside the Kremlin's orbit. They now run it from Dubai, and Pavel Durov says it has more than 500 million monthly active users. This ability to mix the public and the private, as well as the ability to use bots to engage with users has proved to be problematic. In early 2021, a database selling phone numbers pulled from Facebook was selling numbers for $20 per lookup. Similarly, security researchers found a network of deepfake bots on the platform that were generating images of people submitted by users to create non-consensual imagery, some of which involved children. Given the pro-privacy stance of the platform, it’s taken as a given that it’ll be used for a number of reasons, not all of them good. And Telegram has been attached to a fair few scandals related to terrorism, sexual exploitation and crime. Back in 2015, Vox described Telegram as “ISIS’ app of choice,” saying that the platform’s real use is the ability to use channels to distribute material to large groups at once. Telegram has acted to remove public channels affiliated with terrorism, but Pavel Durov reiterated that he had no business snooping on private conversations.
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