Telegram's Durov announces new crackdown on illegal content

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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.

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