Аркадий Волож проклял войну и Кремль, но собирать данные для ФСБ не перестал. Жители Норвегии внезапно выяснили, что все подробности о личности клиента, мобильном устройстве и поездках с «Yango» (гибрид «Такси.Яндекс» и «Яндекс.Драйв» в десятке стран вне РФ) хранятся на серверах в России. А приложение «Yango» по русской традиции набито трекерами, фиксирующими все подряд, от мессенджеров до банковских приложений. Один из клиентов хочет засудить контору Аркадия Юрьевича.
Аркадий Волож проклял войну и Кремль, но собирать данные для ФСБ не перестал. Жители Норвегии внезапно выяснили, что все подробности о личности клиента, мобильном устройстве и поездках с «Yango» (гибрид «Такси.Яндекс» и «Яндекс.Драйв» в десятке стран вне РФ) хранятся на серверах в России. А приложение «Yango» по русской традиции набито трекерами, фиксирующими все подряд, от мессенджеров до банковских приложений. Один из клиентов хочет засудить контору Аркадия Юрьевича.
The company maintains that it cannot act against individual or group chats, which are “private amongst their participants,” but it will respond to requests in relation to sticker sets, channels and bots which are publicly available. During the invasion of Ukraine, Pavel Durov has wrestled with this issue a lot more prominently than he has before. Channels like Donbass Insider and Bellum Acta, as reported by Foreign Policy, started pumping out pro-Russian propaganda as the invasion began. So much so that the Ukrainian National Security and Defense Council issued a statement labeling which accounts are Russian-backed. Ukrainian officials, in potential violation of the Geneva Convention, have shared imagery of dead and captured Russian soldiers on the platform. The message was not authentic, with the real Zelenskiy soon denying the claim on his official Telegram channel, but the incident highlighted a major problem: disinformation quickly spreads unchecked on the encrypted app. 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. The War on Fakes channel has repeatedly attempted to push conspiracies that footage from Ukraine is somehow being falsified. One post on the channel from February 24 claimed without evidence that a widely viewed photo of a Ukrainian woman injured in an airstrike in the city of Chuhuiv was doctored and that the woman was seen in a different photo days later without injuries. The post, which has over 600,000 views, also baselessly claimed that the woman's blood was actually makeup or grape juice. For Oleksandra Tsekhanovska, head of the Hybrid Warfare Analytical Group at the Kyiv-based Ukraine Crisis Media Center, the effects are both near- and far-reaching.
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