“One thing Telegram does is make mass surveillance impossible.” — Pavel Durov Quote

One thing Telegram does is make mass surveillance impossible.

I believe the role of the government is too big. Society must be more decentralized.

Privacy is not for sale, and human rights should not be compromised out of fear or greed.

The first thing that we wanted to make clear is that nobody has to trust anybody. We don't take people's trust for Telegram for granted.

As a foreign company and offshore entity we will not be obliged to comply with the rules of Russia, China, Saudi Arabia and countries like that.

I did surveillance a lot, which sounds exciting, but it never was.

The first thing to understand about surveillance video in public places is that there is already a lot of it going on - though it is impossible to know how much.

We didn't have to use technology to build a surveillance state.