nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20210330-195202-0 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 210330s2021||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20210330-195202-0 doi eng 342 23 Golunova, Valentina Author aut Seeing through the Eye of God Telegram bots and data protection in Russia Golunova, Valentina Verfassungsblog 2021-03-30 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier The messenger app Telegram is swamped with bots which gather and disseminate personal data. Roskomnadzor, Russia’s media watchdog, has just moved to block one of the prominent bots, proudly named ‘Eye of God’. While Telegram bots offer certain positive implications through the newfound transparency they afford, these do not override the tremendous privacy risks posed. But even more importantly, there is little the Russian authorities can do to force Eye of God and other bots to respect the rights of data subjects. funded by the government CC BY-SA 4.0 data protection privacy Russia Telegram Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://staging.verfassungsblog.de/eye-of-god/ raw object