Durov cited initiatives from French and EU lawmakers to require messaging apps like Telegram to implement backdoors for police access and stressed Telegram’s commitment to digital privacy.“Telegram would rather exit a market than undermine encryption with backdoors and violate basic human rights,” Durov stated, adding: “Unlike some of our competitors, we don’t trade privacy for market share.”Backdoors can be exploited by criminalsIn his message, Durov highlighted that the biggest problem behind encryption backdoors lies in their accessibility not only to authorities but also to hackers and foreign agents.“It’s technically impossible to guarantee that only the police can access a backdoor,” Durov said, adding that backdoors would put users’ private messages at risk of being compromised.
In accordance with the EU Digital Services Act, if provided with a valid court order, Telegram would only disclose the IP addresses and phone numbers of criminal suspects — not messages.”He urged privacy advocates to keep communicating with lawmakers and promote encryption as a protection tool of privacy and safety for ordinary people, rather than see it as a criminal tool.“Losing that protection would be tragic,” Durov said.“The battle is far from over”Although the French National Assembly rejected a proposal to allow hidden access to private messages in March, the EU’s war on digital privacy is far from over, Durov said.
Source: EUThe proposal has been heavily criticized by digital privacy advocates and some European lawmakers, with Finnish MEP Aura Salla suggesting that introducing encryption backdoors “fundamentally undermines the very cybersecurity principles ProtectEU aims to uphold.”Related: EU could fine Elon Musk’s X $1B over illicit content, disinformation“No country is immune to the slow erosion of freedoms.
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