Russia’s top court has ruled that the Telegram messaging app can be forced to provide user data to security services. Russia’s top court has ruled that the Telegram messaging app can be forced to provide user data to security services. The Supreme Court threw out an appeal by Telegram protesting against demands from the Federal Security Service intelligence agency (FSB) to provide access to user data. Telegram argued that the FSB violated consumer rights when it demanded that social networks provide authorities with encryption keys and chat histories. Mr Durov tweeted: “Threats to block Telegram unless it gives up private data of its users won’t bear fruit.

Source: Irish Independent March 20, 2018 11:28 UTC