A Moscow court has ordered telecommunications companies to block the telegram chat application in Russia, it has refused to access its users' encrypted messages to the intelligence agency, to hit the company just a few weeks after US $ 1.7bil (RM6.59bil) was raised from investors. .
Telegraph, operated by Russian founder Pavel Durov, has been unable to comply with local laws on the request of Rokkomnadzar, the registrar's communications controller by Yulia Smolina, the court judge of Taganski, so that it can restrict access to the user through immediate effect. Decision can be made within 30 days, but should be applied first, he said.
As the telegram is recognized as a broadcast operator for information in Russia, the encryption key must be provided to send the letters of suspicious suspected terrorists to the agency's senior security service. The telegraph process was considered unconstitutional, but last month the country's Supreme Court withdrew a bill.
According to researcher Medeship, Russia has more than 9.5 million user telegrams. Messenger has said last month that it has surpassed its total audience by exceeding 200 million users globally to offer the world's largest primary currency, which has funded the creation of the Blockcon Network, which handles the transaction several times faster, and built-in cryptocrown for telegram users.
President Vladimir Putin had enacted legislation to fight terrorism in 2016, which included a requirement for messaging services to provide the authority for decrypting the user.
In Putin's attempt to track electronic messages, the wire court decision is one of the last holdouts among communication firms. In June, after complaining of the state-of-the-art communications surveillance, the charge was banned by the terrorists who planned suicide bombs.