O Telegram, rival app from WhatsApp, was fined Russia (16) for failing to provide the government with a digital security breach to view data from user conversations.
In July the company was contacted by the Russian agency to stop using the most secure method of encrypting messages in their application. When thinking about its users and the policies of privacy and data protection, the company refused and received a criminal action from the company.
The Telegram, which has more than 100 million users, has ten days to appeal the decision.
However, the creator of Telegram has remained in full with its data protection policy and has denied government access to messages from its users. For that reason, he was fined $ 14.000.
Telegram, like WhatsApp, encrypts the data of messages exchanged by its users. Without a passkey, only the company can have temporary access to the data relating to the messages.
However, from here on, we applaud and support the Telegram decision, which refused to be part of the Russian government's espionage practices.
