During the first half of the year, Telegram shared identifying information about only 54 users with French authorities.
And in the last three months of the year, Telegram gave French authorities information about 1,386 users.
In Finland, it was 79 percent, and in Belgium, it was 74 percent.
Pavel Durov, chief executive officer of Telegram, at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, on Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2016. Durov was detained in France, on Saturday, Aug. 24, 2024, over claims that the messaging service failed to properly fight crime on the app.© Chris Ratcliffe/Bloomberg
More than half of those requests7,649came in the fourth quarter.
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