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EU capital’s government bans Telegram

The messaging app is subject to the risk of espionage, the municipality of Amsterdam has claimed

The municipality of Amsterdam has barred its civil servants from using the encrypted messaging service Telegram on their work phones, citing alleged criminal activities on the app and the risk of espionage, the radio broadcaster BNR reported on Monday.

A spokesperson for Amsterdam IT councilor Alexander Scholtes confirmed the move to BNR, stating that the ban was enacted in late April but had not been publicly communicated.

Telegram is a “safe haven for hackers, cybercriminals, and drug dealers,” Scholtes claimed, adding there were also concerns about possible espionage via the app.

According to the report, last September Amsterdam city councilor Fatihya Abdi called for a national ban of the platform, claiming that young people were being recruited via the app to commit crimes across the country.

The Ministry of the Interior of the Netherlands has a list of the “most risky” apps that should not be installed on work phones, BNR wrote.

Telegram, which is reportedly used by nearly two million people in the Netherlands, is the largest app to be banned since the country’s government prohibited use of the Chinese-owned short-video platform TikTok on work phones last year.

Telegram is the most used messaging app in Russia and has been also gaining popularity in the rest of the world in recent years, especially after Meta changed the privacy settings of WhatsApp.

Like WhatsApp or Messenger, Telegram allows users to send private and group messages. Unlike its American competitors, however, it also allows users to set up channels to disseminate news and updates to followers.

Telegram’s Russian-born owner, Pavel Durov, has insisted that he respects the rights of Telegram users to privacy and freedom of expression. In an interview in April with American journalist Tucker Carlson, Durov said that he had refused requests to share user data with the US government or to build so-called surveillance “backdoors” into the platform.

In July, Durov announced that Telegram had reached 950 million monthly active users and continues to grow rapidly. Durov, who first founded VK, Russia’s answer to Facebook, sold his stake in VK and left Russia in 2014 due to disagreements with the government. He lived in several countries while looking for the best place from which to run Telegram and ultimately settled in Dubai.

EU officials have been seeking to regulate Telegram and are reportedly considering classifying the app as a “very large online platform.” This would open the privacy-focused messaging app up to stringent EU censorship rules.

https://www.rt.com/news/602792-amsterdam-telegram-ban-security/

Iran close to nuclear weapons – US House Intel head

Tehran could become a nuclear state by the end of the year due to US President Joe Biden’s failed policies, Rep. Mike Turner has warned

Iran could develop nuclear weapons by the end of this year, US House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Turner warned in a statement to CBS on Sunday.

The Ohio Republican claimed that the policies pursued by President Joe Biden and his administration in relation to Iran have failed and suggested that under former President and current Republican nominee Donald Trump things would be different.

“Tehran could declare itself a nuclear state by the end of the year due to US President Joe Biden’s failed policies,” Turner said, stating that several reports have come out that outline this possibility. He added that such a development would mark a major escalation that the US has sought for years to avoid.

Last month, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken issued a similar warning, suggesting that it would take Tehran “one or two weeks” to get the necessary materials to build a nuclear weapon, noting that the country had been stockpiling near-weapons-grade uranium since the US unilaterally withdrew from the Iran nuclear deal (officially called the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, or JCPOA) in 2018.

After “the nuclear agreement was thrown out, instead of being at least a year away from having the breakout capacity of producing fissile material for a nuclear weapon, [Iran] is now probably one or two weeks away from doing that,” the US diplomat said at the Aspen Security Forum in Colorado.

The JCPOA, which was signed in 2015 by Iran, China, France, Germany, Russia, the UK, and US under President Barack Obama, entailed Tehran scaling down its nuclear program in exchange for the lifting of international sanctions.

https://www.rt.com/news/602804-us-intel-iran-nuclear-weapons/

D.C. Councilmember Trayon White Sr. was arrested on Sunday on federal bribery charges, the Justice Department announced Monday.

A criminal complaint alleges that, starting in June, White agreed to accept $156,000 in cash payments in exchange for leveraging his role as a D.C. councilmember to pressure government employees at the Office of Neighborhood Safety and Engagement and DYRS to extend several contracts in the district.

White’s arrest occurred around 2 p.m. Sunday, a spokesperson for the D.C. city council told NBC News. The spokesperson, Lindsey Walton, said the council was not previously aware of an investigation into White.