Sep 17, 2023 at 10:36 PM Update: an hour ago
The Dutch police say they can request telephone numbers from Telegram that users want to keep secret. This possibility is at odds with the chat app’s promise to users.
This is evident from documents released by the police force after an appeal to the Open Government Act, reports BNR. The released documents contain instructions with which police officers can ‘urgently’ request IP addresses and telephone numbers from Telegram.
“Requests are eligible if there is an immediate threat to life,” writes a police employee. The instructions were distributed in December last year. They include a form with the messaging service’s logo.
Telegram says it values user privacy and even claims in its privacy policy that it has “never” shared personal data with law enforcement. That promise has been in doubt for some time now. The German Bundeskriminalamt (the federal police) announced last year that it had successfully requested personal data from the messaging service.
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2023-09-17 20:36:38
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