Russia asks Apple to remove messaging app Telegram from the App Store
The messaging app was banned back in April, but Russia wants Apple to remove it from the App Store all together: and they have a month to comply before things get sticky.
Telegram, a Moscow-based secure messaging app, has been popular in Russia for a number of months now. Well, at least until April, where the app got in trouble for refusing to share its encryption keys with Russia's Federal Security Service.
Following a court ruling that actually banned the app from Russia until it provided said keys, the country went on to block 50 VPN services in order to stop people from accessing the App.
Regardless of the country's attempts, Russians are still accessing the app: and now Apple is being asked to step in.
The majority of users in Russia are still accessing the app, the Kremlin's censorship arm Roskomnadzor announced yesterday. Only 15 to 30 percent of Telegram's operations have been disrupted so far, leading Russia to turn to Apple for help taking the app down. The censorship arm also says that it's in talks with Google to ban the app from Google Play. (The Verge)
In a letter to the company, authorities claim they're giving Apple mone month to meet their demands before their enforce their punishment.
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