{"id":957714,"date":"2025-08-26T11:27:35","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T05:57:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=957714"},"modified":"2025-08-26T11:27:35","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T05:57:35","slug":"i-did-rather-die-then-says-telegram-ceo-pavel-durov-over-his-arrest-by-french-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/08\/26\/i-did-rather-die-then-says-telegram-ceo-pavel-durov-over-his-arrest-by-french-government\/","title":{"rendered":"I did rather die then &#8230;, says Telegram CEO Pavel Durov over his arrest by French government"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Telegram co-founder and CEO, Pavel Durov, has reaffirmed his commitment to user data privacy. Replying to a user on the microblogging site X (formerly Twitter) who suggested that he had provided French authorities with &#8220;backdoor&#8221; access to Telegram data after his arrest last year, Durov wrote: \u201cI\u2019d rather die \u2014 no third party has access to private messages on Telegram.\u201d Durov&#8217;s post came on the first anniversary of his arrest in August 2024 by French authorities, who accused him of being complicit in criminal activity on the platform. The Russian-born entrepreneur, who has denied all criminal charges against him, was detained for four days. In a thread of posts on X, Durov discussed his arrest last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Telegram co-founder and CEO, Pavel Durov, has reaffirmed his commitment to user data privacy. Replying to a user on the microblogging site X (formerly Twitter) who suggested that he had provided French authorities with &#8220;backdoor&#8221; access to Telegram data after his arrest last year, Durov wrote: \u201cI\u2019d rather die \u2014 no third party has access to private messages on Telegram.\u201d Durov&#8217;s post came on the first anniversary of his arrest in August 2024 by French authorities, who accused him of being complicit in criminal activity on the platform. The Russian-born entrepreneur, who has denied all criminal charges against him, was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-957714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=957714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957714\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=957714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=957714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=957714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}