Iraq To Unblock Telegram App As Platform Responded To Security Requirements: Report – News18

Iraq’s telecoms ministry mentioned it would elevate a ban on the Telegram messaging app on Sunday, which was imposed earlier this week, citing safety issues and knowledge leaks of official state establishments and residents.

The app is broadly utilized in Iraq for messaging but additionally as a supply of news and for sharing content material.

Some channels include massive quantities of private knowledge together with the names, addresses and household ties of Iraqis.

The ministry mentioned in an announcement the choice to elevate the ban got here after ”the corporate that owns the platform responded to the necessities of the safety authorities that known as on the corporate to reveal the entities that leaked residents’ knowledge.”

The firm additionally ”expressed its full readiness to speak with the related authorities…,” the assertion added.

In response to Reuters request for remark a member of Telegram’s press staff mentioned that ”posting non-public knowledge with out consent is forbidden by Telegram’s phrases of service and such content material is routinely eliminated by our moderators.”

”We can verify that our moderators took down a number of channels sharing private knowledge. However, we will additionally verify that no non-public person knowledge was requested from Telegram and that none has been shared.”

Last week the ministry mentioned that the corporate didn’t reply to its request to shut down platforms that leak knowledge of the official state establishments and the private knowledge of residents.

(This story has not been edited by News18 employees and is revealed from a syndicated news company feed – Reuters)