Counsel for plaintiffs with the clear direction that neither the plaintiffs nor their counsel shall disclose the said data to any third party, except for the purposes of the present proceedings. “Let copy of the said data be supplied to Id. In an order last week, Justice Prathiba Singh said Telegram had complied with the earlier order and shared the data. In response, the Indian court said the copyright owners couldn’t be left “completely remediless against the actual infringers” because Telegram has chosen to locate its servers outside the country. Telegram unsuccessfully argued that disclosing user information would violate the privacy policy and the laws of Singapore, where it has located its physical servers for storing users’ data. Neetu Singh, the plaintiff teacher, said a number of Telegram channels were re-selling her study materials at discounted prices without permission.Īn Indian court earlier had ordered Telegram to adhere to the Indian law and disclose details about those operating such channels.
The app operator was forced by a Delhi High Court order to share the data after a teacher sued the firm for not doing enough to prevent unauthorised distribution of her course material on the platform. Telegram has disclosed names of administrators, their phone numbers and IP addresses of channels accused of copyright infringement in compliance with a court order in India in a remarkable illustration of the data the instant messaging platform stores on its users and can be made to disclose by authorities.
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