❤️ Thanks everyone for your support and love!

Last month I got interviewed by police for 4 days after arriving in Paris. I was told I may be personally responsible for other people’s illegal use of Telegram, because the French authorities didn’t receive responses from Telegram.

This was surprising for several reasons: 

1. Telegram has an official representative in the EU that accepts and replies to EU requests. Its email address has been publicly available for anyone in the EU who googles “Telegram EU address for law enforcement”. 

2. The French authorities had numerous ways to reach me to request assistance. As a French citizen, I was a frequent guest at the French consulate in Dubai. A while ago, when asked, I personally helped them establish a hotline with Telegram to deal with the threat of terrorism in France.

3. If a country is unhappy with an internet service, the established practice is to start a legal action against the service itself. Using laws from the pre-smartphone era to charge a CEO with crimes committed by third parties on the platform he manages is a misguided approach. Building technology is hard enough as it is. No innovator will ever build new tools if they know they can be personally held responsible for potential abuse of those tools. 

Establishing the right balance between privacy and security is not easy. You have to reconcile privacy laws with law enforcement requirements, and local laws with EU laws. You have to take into account technological limitations. As a platform, you want your processes to be consistent globally, while also ensuring they are not abused in countries with weak rule of law. We’ve been committed to engaging with regulators to find the right balance. Yes, we stand by our principles: our experience is shaped by our mission to protect our users in authoritarian regimes. But we’ve always been open to dialogue.

Sometimes we can’t agree with a country’s regulator on the right balance between privacy and security. In those cases, we are ready to leave that country. We've done it many times. When Russia demanded we hand over “encryption keys” to enable surveillance, we refused — and Telegram got banned in Russia. When Iran demanded we block channels of peaceful protesters, we refused — and Telegram got banned in Iran. We are prepared to leave markets that aren’t compatible with our principles, because we are not doing this for money. We are driven by the intention to bring good and defend the basic rights of people, particularly in places where these rights are violated.

All of that does not mean Telegram is perfect. Even the fact that authorities could be confused by where to send requests is something that we should improve. But the claims in some media that Telegram is some sort of anarchic paradise are absolutely untrue. We take down millions of harmful posts and channels every day. We publish daily transparency reports (like this or this ). We have direct hotlines with NGOs to process urgent moderation requests faster.

However, we hear voices saying that it’s not enough. Telegram’s abrupt increase in user count to 950M caused growing pains that made it easier for criminals to abuse our platform. That’s why I made it my personal goal to ensure we significantly improve things in this regard. We’ve already started that process internally, and I will share more details on our progress with you very soon. 

I hope that the events of August will result in making Telegram — and the social networking industry as a whole — safer and stronger. Thanks again for your love and memes 🙏

🎉Telegram ha alcanzado los 10 millones de suscriptores de pago. ¡10 millones de personas ya disfrutan de Telegram Premium!

🆕 Hoy presentamos nuevas funciones y eliminamos algunas que estaban obsoletas.

⛔️ Hemos eliminado la función Personas cercanas, que era utilizada por menos del 0,1 % de los usuarios de Telegram, pero tenía problemas con bots y estafadores.

🛍 En su lugar, lanzaremos “Negocios cercanos”, que mostrará negocios legítimos y verificados. Estos negocios podrán mostrar catálogos de productos y aceptar pagos sin problemas.

✂️ También hemos desactivado la carga de nuevos archivos multimedia a Telegraph, nuestra herramienta de blogs independiente, que parece haber sido mal utilizada por actores anónimos.

☝️ Si bien el 99,999% de los usuarios de Telegram no tienen nada que ver con el crimen, el 0,001% involucrado en actividades ilícitas crea una mala imagen para toda la plataforma, poniendo en riesgo los intereses de nuestros casi mil millones de usuarios.

✊ Es por eso que este año nos hemos comprometido a convertir la moderación en Telegram de un área de crítica a una de elogio.

#Pavel #Telegram #Premium #Actualización

@mastelegram

Nueva actualización de Telegram 11.1.0

Con la actualización de hoy, los grupos y canales pueden usar estrellas de Telegram como premios en sorteos. También, cualquier artículo que abras en el navegador de Telegram ahora se puede convertir a vista rápida, haciendo más fácil su lectura.

• Sorteos de estrellas
• Vista rápida para el navegador de Telegram
• Menos errores y una mejor optimización
• Mejoras en mini apps

10 millones de suscriptores de Premium

Este mes, Telegram superó los 10 millones de suscriptores de Premium, un aumento al doble en menos de 8 meses. Este crecimiento ayuda en nuestro objetivo de una monetización sostenible que prioriza a los usuarios y su privacidad.

Más➕Información:
https://telegram.org/blog/star-giveaways-iv-in-browser/es?ln=a

Telegram iOS:
Telegram para iOS AppStore.
Telegram Beta iOS TestFlight.
Código fuente.

Telegram Android:
Telegram Direct (apps/canal).
Telegram en PlayStore.
Telegram en AppGallery.
Telegram Beta AppCenter.
Código fuente.

#Telegram #Actualización #iOS #Android

@mastelegram