Telegram is no longer a safe place for terrorists

News on Telegram. The popular messaging service has just updated its privacy policy and not everyone may like the new proposed measures. To begin with, the company has implemented a series of obstacles that prevent terrorists and criminals from roaming freely through this type of network. But how will they get there?

To begin with, from now on, Telegram includes a clause in its terms of service warning users that can give away their IP address and phone number in the case of receiving a court order from the competent authorities, in those cases in which the police have indicated those people as suspected of terrorism.

Telegram has explained in this same communication that it has made public, that at this time there has not yet been any case in which they have had to deliver this information to the authorities. He says, however, that he will make it public if it ever happens, in the transparency report that Telegram publishes every six months. It is, in fact, one of the new measures imposed in the GDPR, the new data protection law approved by the European Union.

Zero tolerance for terrorism, says Pavel Durov

The founder of Telegram is clear about it. Pavel Durov has explained that the imposition of this new clause in his policy means zero tolerance for terrorists. The service will be less welcoming to this type of people, who habitually use the Telegram network to spread their propaganda or even recruit new acolytes for their causes.

But not everyone is happy with the measure. And we're not talking about terrorists, who should be worried. But of the rest of the citizens who can make publications on Telegram and be mistakenly accused of terrorism. In fact, some experts suggest that the change in its privacy policy may be directly motivated by pressure from Russian intelligence, given that Telegram as a service was banned in April.

At the same time, a specialist lawyer named Durov has told The Next Web that the European Union does not force tech firms to provide IPand the telephone number of the citizens, although they do share content that is doubtful and that they are sharing through Telegram.

Be that as it may, having someone flagged as a terrorist suspect can put you in a very dangerous position.Because most likely the state in which you reside will not stop keeping an eye on you That in the best of cases. Be that as it may, for Telegram to deliver this information, a judge must first have signed an order.

Nothing is casual: terrorists like Telegram

Telegram is a network that is often frequented by terrorists. Without going any further, a few hours after the terrorist attacks in Barcelona were perpetrated, different Telegram channels were filled with terrorist proclamations. The application works with a much more complex encryption system, using unique keys, and contains private chats in which you can write messages that disappear after a while . Something like Instagram Stories.

There are public channels, in which propaganda is disseminated, and other private ones,that probably serve terrorists to establish new links. The first attacks in which terrorists used Telegram were those in Paris, in 2015. By then, different channels linked to ISIS had already been closed, but it took them very little time to open new ones.