Telegram CEO Pavel Durov has expressed concerns over the growing private messaging in France and other European Union countries, warning that the Telegram would prefer to come out of some markets than to implement the rearpting behind the user privacy.
In a post on April 21 on his “Du Rove’s Channel” on Telegram, he Na -Post A stressful message about increasing EU’s efforts to soften the messaging of the messaging by adding to the rear, a procedure that will allow authorities to miss the conclusion and access to private user data.
Durov cited initiatives from French and EU lawmakers to need messaging apps such as Telegram to implement backdoors for police access and that stress the Telegram’s promise to digital privacy.
“The Telegram would prefer a market than to avoid rearving behind and breaking the basic human rights,” Durov said, added: “Unlike some of our competitors, we have not exchanged privacy for market sharing.”
Backdoors can take advantage of criminals
In his message, Durov emphasized that the biggest problem behind the background in the background lies in their access to not only the authorities but also the hackers and foreign agents.
“It is impossible to ensure that only the police can access a backdoor,” Durov said, adding that backdos will put private messages of users at risk to compromise.
He added that criminals are likely to return to less well -known apps and use virtual private networks (VPNs) to prevent discovery, regulations are ineffective.
Telegram is “never revealed a single byte” of private messages
Durov said that while Telegram complies with valid court orders in certain constituents, such as IP addresses and phone numbers have been announced Found to be involved in criminal activity, it has not yet exposed any private messages:
“In its 12-year history, Telegram has never revealed a single byte of private messages. According to the EU Digital Services Act, if given a valid court order, the Telegram will only reveal the IP addresses and phone numbers of criminal suspects-not messages.”
He urged privacy advocates to continue to communicate with lawmakers and promote the presidency as a tool of privacy protection and safety for ordinary people, rather than seeing it as a criminal tool. “Losing that protection will be tragedy,” Durov said.
“Far away the battle”
Although the French National Assembly declined A proposal to allow hidden access to private messages in March, the EU war on digital privacy is far from over, Durov said.
Durov cited the European Commission’s “Protectionu” proposal from early April. The proposal aims to find “technological solutions to enable legal access to law authorities in law enforcement in 2026.”
The proposal was overly criticized by proponents of digital privacy and some European lawmakers, including Finnish MEP Aura Salla suggests That is the introduction to the rear of the “Introduction slowing down the very principles of cybersecurity aimed at standing on Protectionu.”
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“There is no country immune to the slow erosion of freedoms. Every day, those freedoms are attacked -and every day, we must defend them,” Durov concluded.
Durov’s warning about Privacy and EU’s privacy threats came in the middle of a continuous Legal case in France against Telegram CEO Centered around the allegations of facilitating a platform that provides for prohibited transactions.
According to French prosecutors, Durov Facing up to 10 years of prison time In addition to a $ 550,000 fine if condemned.
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