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

The only thing the article is mentioning is that MTC (mobile network operator in Russia) will be able to advertise to users based on their phone number.

MTC can already advertise to users based on their location. 

So, where did you get the information that Telegram "sold all the user data" to the Russian government?

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omg, the number of people who don't get the consequences of targeted ads to gather intelligence is scary

read up on why exactly this kills privacy completely

not to mention, if previously gathered data (for "analytics purposes") already had a phone number associated but was not used to target ads, you could probably leverage that and create profiles from existing data, with the help of MTS of course

This pretty much allows you to link all the gathered activity to a name behind a SIM card. So if you used your name to register a SIM, any behaviour (by extension political views and maybe some threat-score) can be attributed to you as an individual.