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Indian Intelligence Services monitoring Russia's war on Telegram

The Russian experiment, if successful, could give new life to the Government of India's own efforts to place restrictions on encrypted communication technologies

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Praveen Swami New Delhi
Indian intelligence services are "closely following" the progress of Russia's ongoing effort to shut encrypted messaging giant Telegram, a senior government official has told Business Standard. The move comes amid mounting concerns in India over the use of encrypted messaging services by criminal organisations and terrorists -but also about illegal surveillance by the government.

Last week, Russia's top court granted a request by the country's federal security service, the FSB, to block Telegram after it declined to decrypt messages sent by an individual involved in the St Petersburg metro bombing on April 3, 2017. Sixteen people were killed, including the perpetrator,

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