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Bad News: Telegram App Bows to Big Brother, Agrees to Share User Data
IWB ^ | Chris Black

Posted on 09/02/2018 7:49:38 AM PDT by davikkm

If you’re worried about privacy in the digital era, you are most probably privy to Telegram, the hugely popular uber-secretive messaging app, which boasted to be world’s fastest and most secure, or something along these lines. Okay, they all say that, but the bad news for our readers is that Telegram is now going to share phone numbers and IP addresses if asked by Big Brother. That would be your beloved government, or the “authorities” as they like to call themselves.

The thing is, Telegram recently updated its Privacy Policy page, and if you go and check it out (nobody does, you’ll just have to trust Internet-diggers like yours truly), you’ll be able to observe some very interesting additions, the likes of:

“If Telegram receives a court order that confirms you’re a terror suspect, we may disclose your IP address and phone number to the relevant authorities. So far, this has never happened. When it does, we will include it in a semiannual transparency report published at: t.me/transparency.”

(Excerpt) Read more at investmentwatchblog.com ...


TOPICS: Computers/Internet; Government; Politics
KEYWORDS: blogtrash; telegramapp

1 posted on 09/02/2018 7:49:39 AM PDT by davikkm
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To: davikkm

Everyone is falling in line like dominos.

Probably never happen but we need to return to dial pay phones, hand signals, meetings in the middle of a park, paper messages, etc.


2 posted on 09/02/2018 7:57:01 AM PDT by MichaelCorleone (Jesus Christ is not a religion. He's the Truth.)
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To: MichaelCorleone
Yes, I am contemplating installing a Cone of Silence in my home.

/s

3 posted on 09/02/2018 8:11:14 AM PDT by BipolarBob (My computer can beat me at chess but I can beat it at kickboxing.)
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To: BipolarBob

That you Chief?


4 posted on 09/02/2018 8:15:02 AM PDT by MichaelCorleone (Jesus Christ is not a religion. He's the Truth.)
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To: MichaelCorleone

Everything is being set in place for the antichrist and one world government to be established.

Right now, the only thing standing in their way is Donal Trump.

Hillary was supposed to win and if she had, this would be history, but we’re working on God’s timetable, not theirs.


5 posted on 09/02/2018 10:36:31 AM PDT by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith......)
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To: metmom

I know. It is both troubling and exciting at the same time.

Which is why I keep looking up.

(I know no one knows the day nor the hour, but still...)


6 posted on 09/02/2018 10:47:07 AM PDT by MichaelCorleone (Jesus Christ is not a religion. He's the Truth.)
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To: davikkm

Ah, another reason I’ll stick to my old flip phone that does its job of making calls and nothing else.


7 posted on 09/02/2018 10:51:15 AM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: MichaelCorleone

The hour and the day are very specific, but Jesus did tell us to be aware of the season and gave us LOTS of clues about when that would be.


8 posted on 09/02/2018 12:18:36 PM PDT by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith......)
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To: metmom

I’m sure you don’t want to go back and forth about this all day, but I just want to say I am seeing more people than usual coming to the saving knowledge of Jesus Christ.

But sadly, I am also seeing people who are reacting to these troubled times as a reason to reject the Savior in a big way(don’t ask me how they come up with THAT logic).

It seems I am watching first hand and in real time the wheat being separated from the chaff.


9 posted on 09/02/2018 12:49:23 PM PDT by MichaelCorleone (Jesus Christ is not a religion. He's the Truth.)
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