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

cto @ bwl.gg (lunchbreak.com), 80M+ users (bdut.ch) 🙏 built @remindme, @mintit, @gpt, @healthbot, farcantasy.xyz

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?

BDFL of Quilibrium, Eng @ Farcaster, ex-Coinbase, always opinionated, never hydrated

/quilibrium

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

The same is true for email addresses. And we will be having the same conversation about EVM addrs/ENS names in 20 years unless we change the way all these common public identifiers are used to correlate all our data. I s'pose that's possible if everything from here forward were built on platforms like Quilibriuam. 🤷