Durov Warns of France’s Potential Encryption Ban, Threatens Telegram Exit

Pavel Durov, founder of messaging app Telegram, has issued a critical warning about the potential for France to ban end-to-end encrypted messaging. This follows the French Senate’s passage of a law requiring messaging apps to provide backdoors for police access to private messages, which was initially rejected by the National Assembly but reintroduced recently by the Paris Police Prefect. ]