gm, wake up babe

telegram sold all user data to russian government, now it's official

forbes.ru/tekhnologii/498530-mts-dogovorilas-s-telegram-o-reklamnom-partnerstve

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What am I missing in the article? It’s mentioning a partnership with Мобильные ТелеСистемы — I’d assume they have a relationship with the government (who doesn’t in Russia, you’re kind of forced to), but what about the deal means what you say it means?

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mts is virtually owned by russian government and now tg gives the government mapping between phone numbers and tg accounts

then you can match phone number to other data from other sources and boom you have a mapping between tg account and your home address

To be fair it’s possible to connect your Telegram account exclusively to an on-chain number on TON network. Not cheap but should put a patch to this “problem”.

It seems to me though that the weak link here are phone numbers… tbh can’t believe this does not happen with Meta’s Whatsapp…

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have you seen the prices for these phone numbers?