This whole thing seems more like frustration with Russia than any concerning claims. I get it, Russia’s not a friendly nation to much of the audience here, but

This whole thing seems more like frustration with Russia than any concerning claims. I get it, Russia’s not a friendly nation to much of the audience here, but better to just focus on that specially. Telegram is currently domiciled in Dubai not Russia ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. Even if Russia is collecting information at this scale, what are they going to do with it? The amount of normal people in the world with Russian interests (trade, secrets, etc) isn’t significant and Russia’s intel services apparently couldn’t inform the gov how badly they’d fail trying to take over entirety of Ukraine. If a gov really wanted intel on a person, they’d go with Pegasus or whatever the RU equiv is since it wouldn’t allow location to be disabled.