Russia fined Telegram after refusing to provide user data

Telegram's application for safe messaging on Monday received a fine of 800,000 rubles, equivalent to about 14,000 US dollars, by the Russian court of Mishchansky for failing to provide the keys to decrypt the user's messages to the Russian government and more precisely to the FSB. For keys to decrypt the application.

The Russian intelligence indicated that some of those involved in the suicide attack in St. Petersburg this year have continued through the application of Telegram, and that the law enforcement can not follow those calls without the decoding codes, and may follow the law enforcement application of safe messaging for what Nearly a year so far, in a battle of privacy is not strange to global technology companies.

Russia has previously threatened to implement the ban if the application does not comply with Russian intelligence requests. The founder of the application, Pavel Duroff, published a publication on the decision on the social networking site established by VK. Federal Security, a Russian state security organization, is unconstitutional.

The founder of the application explained that these requests are not technologically possible and that providing access to the application through a back door is not easy. Durov is currently appealing the decision and has requested in his publication any lawyer interested in the case to contact him. Candidates in the next few days, although the fine is not big but it seems clear that Dorodov wants to take a position on the privacy of the user.

The developers of secure messaging applications such as Telegram say governments are exploiting a number of criminals to target cryptographic technologies that are a nightmare for them. The Telegram application was created by 33-year-old Russian businessman Pavel Duroff. The application has 100 million active users per month, Less than seven times that of Wattab, owned by Facebook.

During the summer, Durov was persecuted by the pro-Russian press as the owner of the most transparent messaging system, and the application was an ideal tool for terrorists. Russian federal watchdog warned on June 23 that it would ban enforcement if it did not comply with FSB requests.