Telegram has created the first service for its future blockchain platform Telegram Open Network (TON), writes the Russian newspaper Vedomosti, citing sources close to the developers.
A new service for storing personal data of users, Telegram Passport, allows you to identify the identity of the messenger user and escape anonymity.
Telegram Passport provides the opportunity to download all the necessary data once: civil and foreign passports, utility bills, driver's licenses, bank account certificates and other documents. The user gets the opportunity to instantly transfer all the necessary data to partner services and use their services both within Telegram and on the main service sites. The service, according to the source, may even ask, if necessary, to update the photo in the documents. At the same time, Telegram will not gain access to personal data, since the user himself will encrypt it with his own two-factor authentication password, with the help of which the messenger hopes to strengthen data protection. Another Vedomosti source said that the Qiwi payment system already has access to the service. They declined to comment on this matter. There have been no official statements from Telegram yet. All information received is contained on a closed page of the site, to which journalists managed to gain access.
Telegram Passport is now being tested in closed mode.
Telegram’s plans to launch its own TON blockchain payment platform with Gram cryptocurrency became known in early 2018. The company conducted two rounds of ICO and raised $1.7 billion. messenger, as it became known recently, refused from the third - public - stage of the ICO.
Telegram, as of mid-March, had more than 200 million users around the world.
In mid-April, a Russian court ruled block Telegram after the messenger refused to hand over the encryption keys for user correspondence to the FSB. At the end of April, an Iranian court banned Telegram in the country. In Russia, Telegram has about 14 million users, in Iran - about 40 million.
Given the latest events and scandals related to confidentiality of user data on the network, the new service may raise serious concerns.. Today no one can give a guarantee that such a complete “data package” for each user will not be of interest to hackers or intelligence services of any country.
So it’s too early to say whether the new service will be a popular application that makes life easier for users or will become their Pandora’s Box.
According to https://www.vedomosti.ru
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