The decision immediate blocking of the Telegram application in Russia it is already taken and they have finally blocked the application. After the tug of war between the application and the Russian state communications watchdog, we already have a result and in this case negative for the interests of the application.
El last April 6 Russia sued over Pavel Dúrov's app, and this morning in the absence of the legal representatives of Telegram and very quickly the Taganski District Court made the final decision. In this case, the block could be lifted when Telegram shares with the authorities the encryption codes of the users' communications, something that does not seem possible at the moment.
Russian law requires message app providers to disclose data of users whenever they request it, with Telegram it was requested and in the face of the refusal, what the regulator Roskomnadzor warned this past Thursday is fulfilled and is now blocked as reported by the state news agency TASS. Last 2017 Telegram already paid a fine for breaching this law and now everything finally ended up in the hands of justice with a somewhat complicated final result for Telegram.
The blockade of Telegram has been immediate
Telegram's response was immediate and in the hours after the confirmation of the blockade, the legal representatives affirm that the constitutional principle of the secrecy of messaging is violated and that by offering these data to the authorities they could access the messages sent by any user of the app. Many are the problems that we are seeing related to the privacy of the users And while Facebook is fighting to prevent the leakage of its users' personal data, the Russian authorities are fighting to obtain it.
The tricky thing about these privacy issues is when terrorism, joint attacks or the like are mixed together. Some countries are on alert for this and warn that Telegram is being used by this type of people thanks to the level of encryption of the messages. We'll see how the soap opera ends, but At the moment users in Russia can no longer use the app.
