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Telegram on the transfer of data of Kazakhstanis to law enforcement agencies

13.01.2025 00:03:00
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According to the information provided by the official Transparency Reports bot, in the period from January 1 to December 31, 2024, Telegram fulfilled 74 official requests from the Kazakh authorities to disclose IP addresses and/or phone numbers.

In total, the platform transferred data on 496 Kazakhstanis to law enforcement agencies. The next report will be provided in April of this year.

Interesting statistics

In terms of the amount of data disclosed by the messenger, Kazakhstan ranks tenth, and in terms of requests fulfilled, it ranks twelfth. There are 30 countries in the list.

The absolute leader is India, which has fulfilled 14,641 requests and disclosed data on 23,535 users. It is followed by Germany, whose requests Telegram satisfied in 945 cases and issued data on 2,237 citizens, then the United States with 900 requests and 2,253 users.

The industry publication 404 Media, having analyzed the general data, came to the conclusion that after the arrest of Pavel Durov in France, there was a noticeable surge in the amount of information provided by the messenger to governments of various countries.

At the end of November last year, Telegram was officially registered at the Astana International Financial Center. Earlier, the head of the Ministry of Digital Development, Zhaslan Madiyev, announced the beginning of the messenger's cooperation with the Republic of Kazakhstan, emphasizing that this would increase "control over content in Telegram".


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