Instant messaging platform Telegram has bowed to legal pressure less than a month after the Chief Executive Officer Pavel Durov was arrested in France where he was charged with alleged complicity in the spread of child sexual abuse materials. Durov stated on Monday that he will henceforth provide Telegram users’ IP addresses and phone numbers to relevant authorities if requested. …

The billionaire founder and CEO of Telegram, Pavel Durov, was reportedly detained at Bourget Airport near Paris on Saturday evening, according to French news outlets TF1 and BFM TV. Durov, who was travelling on his private jet from Azerbaijan, was arrested under a French warrant related to a preliminary police investigation into Telegram’s alleged role in facilitating criminal activities, reports …