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Telegram Will Share User IP Addresses, Phone Numbers With Police Upon Request | Prior to CEO Pavel Durov's arrest by French police last month, the Telegram app had said it did not to process law enforcement requests.
Prior to CEO Pavel Durov's arrest by French police last month, the Telegram app had said it did not to process law enforcement requests.
In a significant reversal, the company changed its policies, and it will now turn over Telegram user IP addresses and phone numbers to law enforcement agencies in response to valid legal requests. In the days after Durov’s arrest, Telegram said its founder had nothing to hide and that it was “absurd” to hold the company or its owner responsible for users who violated the platform’s policies. It removed the People Nearby feature, which showed a list of other users in close proximity, and disabled media uploads to Telegraph, the company’s blogging platform, which “seems to have been used by anonymous actors,” Durov said.
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