Well, this is a interesting development.
https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-816149
TLDR. The guy who founded Telegram, a secure messaging service, has been arrested in France for not cooperating with law enforcement. He's also being charged for terrorism, narcotic supply, fraud, and money laundering.
Telegram is one of many messaging services that claim that they don't provide details to law enforcement regarding your conversations due to the way that they are encrypted, and the platform has little to no moderation on what you can discuss there. That's likely where most of the charges are coming from, but until more information comes to light it's going to be hard to know exactly what's going on here.
This may however be related to some legislation that is being pushed in Europe that would implement governmental control over chat services like Telegram;
https://balkaninsight.com/2023/09/29/europol-sought-unlimited-data-access-in-online-child-sexual-abuse-regulation/
The logic here is that the government, specifically law enforcement, require this level of control over messaging services to allow them to combat CSAM and other criminal activities. I suppose having the entirety of all chat services laid open would make that process simpler but that's giving law enforcement a huge pile of data to go through and I have concerns.
Obviously the first one is who's getting access to this data and how is that being policed to make sure that nobody is doing something they shouldn't be? Since you know law enforcement never does anything that might call their integrity into question.
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