Russia does not yield and neither does Telegram ... Result, a lawsuit filed by the country's state communications control body block the use of the application. All this has a long history and comes after those responsible for the messaging application refused to give access to security services to review user messages.
Telegram is one of the few messaging applications that does not allow third parties to read encrypted messages from their users, so right now he is having problems with the authorities of the country for the refusal to give them access.
The demand is already imposed
After several tug of war between the two, the lawsuit has now been officially filed. Russia's FSB federal security service says it needs access to these encrypted messages and before the refusal of Pavel Durov, CEO and founder of this application multiplatform messaging have imposed this demand on them.
Durov himself explained to the media that the threats and coercion they were getting will be of no use and they would not give their arm to twist in this case: «We will defend the freedom of expression and the privacy of our users always«. Therefore, although it is warned that they will block the app in the country, it does not seem that this has a simple solution and finally everything indicates that they will reach the courts. Last March, Telegram managed to reach the figure of 200 million active users around the world and most of them are in the former Soviet Union and the Middle East, although in Spain it is also one of the most popular messaging applications. use, with the permission of WhatsApp, of course.
