The Telegram messenger announced its intention to cooperate with law enforcement agencies from different countries, passing them on phone numbers and users' IPs "in response to sound legal requests". This decision is caused by the need to strengthen security and fight crime in the face of cyber threats.
This was reported by the founder of the messenger of the Russian Pavel Durov.
"We have made it clear that IP addresses and phone numbers of those who violate our rules can be disclosed to the relevant authorities in response to sound legal requests. These measures should scare off criminals," Durov wrote.
Durov emphasized that the search in the messenger "is designed to find friends and news, not to promote illegal goods." Before the arrest, his eyes were closed in the telegram.
We will remind, the founder of the Telegram messenger Pavel Durov was detained at the Le Bourge Airport near Paris on August 24. Five days later, Durov was released under judicial supervision with a pledge of five million euros. He was forbidden to leave France.
The Paris prosecutor's office stated that the founder of Telegram Pavel Durov is suspected of 12 crimes. Among them is the refusal to provide information on the requests of the authorized bodies, complicity in storing images of juvenile pornographic nature, complicity in the spread of drugs, complicity in the spread of hacker programs.
