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Chiara Castro

Telegram pledges to exit the market rather than "undermine encryption with backdoors"

Avel Durov, chief executive officer of Telegram, at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, on Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2016.

  • Telegram's CEO, Pavel Durov, has said Telegram would rather exit a market than undermine encryption with backdoors
  • This comes as France and other governments push for a legal backdoor for police access to private and encrypted messages
  • Pavel Durov was arrested in August 2024 in France for, among other things, providing encrypted services to criminals
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