Durov: Telegram is not against entering open messenger data into the Roskomnadzor register

The founder of Telegram, Pavel Durov, said that he was not against entering the open data of the messenger into the register of Roskomnadzor.

“The head of Roskomnadzor disowned his desire to gain access to the personal correspondence of Telegram users and stated that all he expects from us to comply with the law is to provide information about the Telegram company ... Registration data about the Telegram publishing company is not a secret and is available to anyone in open sources, ” Durov wrote on his page on VKontakte.

He added that he "has no objection to using this data to register Telegram Messenger LLP in the register of information dissemination organizers" if the agency does not gain access to users' correspondence. According to him, the Telegram team will not comply with the requirements of the Yarovaya law, as well as other laws that are “incompatible with the privacy protection and privacy policy of Telegram.”

“As part of our work with the Russian regulator, we can only promise the level of cooperation that we demonstrate in all other countries, namely, to continue working together to remove public materials related to the propaganda of terrorism, drugs, incitement to violence and child pornography, and also to continue work to stop spamming,” he wrote.

on its official Facebook page Earlier on Wednesday, Roskomnadzor reported that the agency had received "deliberately false notifications" about the inclusion of the Telegram messenger in the register of information dissemination organizers (ARI).

According to the department, notifications were sent through a form on the official website. “It was established that messages calling for sending “fake” notifications on behalf of Internet companies were distributed through Twitter users and owners of Telegram channels,” Roskomnadzor said in a statement.

“Your noble impulses to register the Telegram messenger without the participation of its owners is nothing more than providing deliberately false information to the federal executive body,” the agency added, noting that only the company itself can register the company.

Last week, the head of Roskomnadzor, Alexander Zharov, personally demanded that Pavel Durov and the administration of the messenger transfer data about the service so that the department would include it in the register of organizers of the dissemination of information on the Internet. He stated that the messenger ignores the security of ordinary users and provides opportunities for communication to terrorists and criminals.

Durov himself denied these accusations and called the threats to block Telegram "sabotage of state interests."