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00:00One month after being arrested by French authorities, Telegram founder Pavel Durov agrees to cooperate
00:06and hand over information of people who use the platform for criminal purposes.
00:11Durov was charged with failing to curb extremist and terrorist contact on Telegram.
00:16To further deter criminals from abusing Telegram search, we have updated our Terms of Service
00:21and Privacy policy, ensuring they are consistent across the world.
00:26We've made it clear that the IP addresses and phone numbers of those who violate our
00:30rules can be disclosed to relevant authorities in response to valid legal requests.
00:37An avowed free speech advocate, Durov initially criticised his arrest.
00:41He has long resisted attempts to take down content on Telegram and has previously seen
00:46it banned in Iran and in his native Russia, where it was later unbanned rather than hand
00:51over users' details.
00:55Sometimes we can't agree with the country's regulator on the right balance between privacy
00:59and security.
01:00In those cases, we are ready to leave that country.
01:04Telegram is often erroneously believed to be an end-to-end encrypted platform, but this
01:09is not the default setting for private messages and not at all for chat groups.
01:14A holder of a French passport among three other nationalities, Durov was arrested on
01:18August 24th upon arriving at Le Bourget airport on a private plane.
01:23It remains to be seen if his climb down will result in the charges against him being dropped.