Telegram has standard tools that allow you to monitor user activity in messaging with the right approach. This is about my research. informs Wired version.
Wired’s authors claim that the Telegram API for chatbots allows them to take a full backup of the content in the messenger they have access to. For example, the popular analytics service TGStat has a messenger API and a bot that interacts with thousands of channels at once. Thus, Wired writes, TGStag can store information about all users of client channels and content from them.
Wired believes that by analyzing such data archives, it is possible to restore the detailed profile of any user from a channel with a connected TGStat bot. In particular, you can find out which channels the user subscribes to, when he is online and not only. Wired is confident that Russian intelligence services are using this Telegram feature to spy on Russians.
Journalists also alleged that Russian special services have access to encrypted secret chats on Telegram. As proof, Wired only cites the words of users who mark their messages as read in private chats, even if no one reads them.
Telegram declined to comment on the Wired investigation. However, Pavel Durov’s “long-time collaborator” Georgy Lobushkin said Telegram absolutely did not pass any information on to Russian security forces. Lobushkin said that although the Russian market is important to Telegram, Durov would rather abandon the market than cooperate with the authorities.
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