Telegram now shares users’ IP and phone number on legal requests

Telegram announced a privacy policy change to share suspects’ IP addresses and phone numbers with authorities upon valid court orders for criminal cases that violate its Terms of Service, with disclosures to be logged in transparency reports (https://t.me/transparency); it also tightened search to curb illegal goods and launched reporting via @SearchReport, while noting CEO Pavel Durov’s brief arrest in France amid an ongoing investigation and Ukraine’s ban of Telegram on government and critical infrastructure devices.