🇩🇪Співробітник "BFE+"* на публічному заході. Рік 2019.
*— "Відділ збереження та арешту доказів", "+" – спеціалізований підрозділ, Федеральні поліцейські сили Німеччини. Створений у 2015 році для полегшення навантаження на спецназ "GSG 9" і "SEK"; підтримка їх груп у разі тривалих/особливих терористичних ситуацій і пошукових заходів, має можливість самостійно вжити заходи у випадку затримки розгортання інших, а також охорона громадського порядку. Відділ налічує близко 250 осіб. __
Employee of "BFE+"* at a public event. 2019.
*— "Evidence Preservation and Seizure Division", "+" is a specialized unit of the Federal Police Forces of Germany. Created in 2015 to lighten the load on special forces "GSG 9" and "SEK"; supporting their groups in the event of prolonged/special terrorist situations and search operations, having the ability to independently take measures in the event of a delay in the deployment of others, as well as maintaining public order. The department has about 250 people.
🇩🇪Співробітник "BFE+"* на публічному заході. Рік 2019.
*— "Відділ збереження та арешту доказів", "+" – спеціалізований підрозділ, Федеральні поліцейські сили Німеччини. Створений у 2015 році для полегшення навантаження на спецназ "GSG 9" і "SEK"; підтримка їх груп у разі тривалих/особливих терористичних ситуацій і пошукових заходів, має можливість самостійно вжити заходи у випадку затримки розгортання інших, а також охорона громадського порядку. Відділ налічує близко 250 осіб. __
Employee of "BFE+"* at a public event. 2019.
*— "Evidence Preservation and Seizure Division", "+" is a specialized unit of the Federal Police Forces of Germany. Created in 2015 to lighten the load on special forces "GSG 9" and "SEK"; supporting their groups in the event of prolonged/special terrorist situations and search operations, having the ability to independently take measures in the event of a delay in the deployment of others, as well as maintaining public order. The department has about 250 people.
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. A Russian Telegram channel with over 700,000 followers is spreading disinformation about Russia's invasion of Ukraine under the guise of providing "objective information" and fact-checking fake news. Its influence extends beyond the platform, with major Russian publications, government officials, and journalists citing the page's posts. In the United States, Telegram's lower public profile has helped it mostly avoid high level scrutiny from Congress, but it has not gone unnoticed. 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. 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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