MOSCOW: A Moscow court on Friday ruled to block
the popular messaging app Telegram in Russia, after it refused to give state
security services access to private conversations.
The ruling follows a long-running battle between authorities and Telegram, which has a reputation for securely encrypted communications, as Moscow pushes to increase surveillance of internet activities.
The Roskomnadzor telecoms watchdog, which
brought the case, had earlier demanded the service be blocked as soon as the
verdict was announced.The ruling follows a long-running battle between authorities and Telegram, which has a reputation for securely encrypted communications, as Moscow pushes to increase surveillance of internet activities.
Telegram was found to have breached a law that requires social media sites that use encoding to give the key to security services to decode messages.
The app's maverick creator Pavel Durov wrote on
social media that "Privacy is not for sale, and human rights should not be
compromised out of fear or greed."
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