Telegram shared users’ personal data by court order.
How informed TechCrunch, a platform team, has released the names of administrators, phone numbers and IP addresses of channels accused of copyright infringement under a court ruling in India. Offenders were reselling study materials from someone else’s course at discounted prices.
According to the publication, this perfectly illustrates the data the platform holds on us and how authorities can force it to be disclosed.
Telegram attempted to explain that disclosing user information would violate the privacy policy and laws of Singapore, where they have placed their physical servers to store user data. In response, an Indian court said copyright owners could not remain completely disenfranchised against infringers as Telegram decided to host its servers outside the country.
Subscribe to LIGA.Tech on Telegram: high tech news
That Telegram complied with the order and provided the data was reported by Judge Pratiba Singh. According to him, neither the plaintiffs nor their lawyers should disclose said data to a third party, except for the purposes of these proceedings.
A Telegram spokesperson declined to say whether the program operator shared any personal data.
“Telegram stores very little or no data about its users. In most cases, we can’t even access user data without special entry points, and we believe it was. Therefore, we cannot confirm that any personal data was shared in this case,” Telegram spokesperson Remy Vaughn told TechCrunch.
Read also
If you notice a spelling mistake, select it with the mouse and press Ctrl+Enter.
