Telegram Caves, Agrees To Provide Phone Numbers and IP Addresses To Law Enforcement

By Tim Gamble

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9-26-2024  London - Pavel Durov, the CEO of the messaging app Telegram, announced earlier this week that Telegram has updated its terms and conditions to allow for providing phone numbers and IP addresses to law enforcement. However, Telegram will do so only in response to ‘valid legal requests.’ 

Durov was arrested by French police last month and was charged with complicity and refusing to cooperate with law enforcement investigations. The changes in Telegram's terms of service can only be seen as an attempt to avoid further government harassment.

What does this change mean? Telegram should no longer be consider a "secure" messaging service, since it is no longer secure against law enforcement and other government authorities. However, it remains one of the better options among the social media and messaging services, at least for now. 

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