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.
But Kliuchnikov, the Ukranian now in France, said he will use Signal or WhatsApp for sensitive conversations, but questions around privacy on Telegram do not give him pause when it comes to sharing information about the war. Andrey, a Russian entrepreneur living in Brazil who, fearing retaliation, asked that NPR not use his last name, said Telegram has become one of the few places Russians can access independent news about the war. Two days after Russia invaded Ukraine, an account on the Telegram messaging platform posing as President Volodymyr Zelenskiy urged his armed forces to surrender. As a result, the pandemic saw many newcomers to Telegram, including prominent anti-vaccine activists who used the app's hands-off approach to share false information on shots, a study from the Institute for Strategic Dialogue shows. But Telegram says people want to keep their chat history when they get a new phone, and they like having a data backup that will sync their chats across multiple devices. And that is why they let people choose whether they want their messages to be encrypted or not. When not turned on, though, chats are stored on Telegram's services, which are scattered throughout the world. But it has "disclosed 0 bytes of user data to third parties, including governments," Telegram states on its website.
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