Iran Gives Messaging Apps a Year to Move Data Inside Country

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Iran Gives Messaging Apps a Year to Move Data Inside Country

By CircleID Reporter
May 30, 2016, 4:30 pm PDT Views: 7,073 Add Comment

Iran has given foreign messaging apps a year to move data they hold about Iranian users onto servers inside the country, prompting privacy and security concerns on social media. Iran has some of the strictest controls on internet access in the world and blocks access to social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter. The new requirements could particularly affect messaging app Telegram. The cloud-based instant messaging service has gained popularity because of its high level of security and is estimated to have about 20 million users in Iran, which has a total population of about 80 million.

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