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Pavel Durov Defends Telegram's Privacy Changes Amid User Unrest
After Telegram founder Pavel Durov’s arrest in France, the platform has made several changes that seemingly make it friendlier to authorities.
Telegram CEO Pavel Durov today defended recent changes to his platform, amid concerns his arrest in France has made the messaging app more compliant with legal requests to share user data with the authorities. Durov attempted to minimize the significance of changes made to the app since he was arrested in August and charged with complicity in a range of crimes, including spreading sexual images of children. He attributed a recent uptick in the number of EU legal requests received and considered valid by the app over the last several months to European authorities beginning to use the correct Telegram email address.
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