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Pavel Durov, CEO and co-founder of Telegram. (Photo by Steve Jennings/Getty Images for TechCrunch)

Around the world, cops have started getting significantly more data from Telegram since the arrest of the app’s CEO Pavel Durov. In a recently-released transparency report from Telegram, it revealed it had handed over either the IP address and/or phone numbers of 2,253 users in response to 900 requests from U.S. law enforcement agencies throughout 2024. It’s a significant jump, given that between January 1 and September 30 2024, Telegram processed just 14 such requests.

In August, Durov was arrested in France, accused of failing to assist in child sexual abuse investigations. A month later, Durov said the company would begin providing data in response to government demands for information, something it had long resisted doing. There has been no update as to the status of Durov’s case in France. Forbes also

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