Telegram, the widely-used messaging application, has issued a strong defense of its founder Pavel Durov following his arrest at a Paris airport on Saturday. In a statement released on Sunday, the company condemned the notion that a platform’s owner should be held responsible for the misuse of the platform, asserting that Durov “has nothing to…
Pavel Durov, the billionaire founder and CEO of the Telegram messaging app, was arrested on Saturday evening at Le Bourget Airport outside Paris. French media outlets TF1 and BFM TV, citing unnamed sources, reported that Durov was detained upon his arrival in France on a private jet. Authorities have issued an arrest warrant, with the…
Another big fight is brewing between telecom operators — Airtel, Reliance Jio and Vodafone-Idea — and internet giants over the regulation of over-the-top (OTT) platforms. Telecom industry body COAI has called for bringing popular messaging and video call apps like WhatsApp, Telegram, and Google Meet under the ambit of telecom licences, arguing that they contribute…
A Bengaluru-based 52-year-old woman entrepreneur lost Rs 2.7 crore in an online scam in April. However, the victim was able to recover Rs 1.7 crore from the scammers as she reported the incident and filed a complaint with the cybercrime police soon after realising that she had been scammed. How scammers trapped the woman The…
