The popular instant messaging service Telegram has dismissed claims by Iranian officials that a third of the data from its Iranian users is processed by servers based in Iran, saying such statements were “100 percent” wrong.
The claim was made by Mohammad Hassan Entezari, Secretary of Iran’s Supreme Cyberspace Council, the country’s highest Internet policy-making body, who was quoted on September 6, 2015, by the Mehr News Agency as saying that “30 percent of the data from Telegram’s 13 million users was hosted inside Iran.”
@Ammir This is 100% #bullshit. — Telegram Messenger (@telegram) September 16, 2015
The Iranian official’s assertion quickly prompted …read more
Source: Iranian.com
