Telegram for a Mr. Martin Selmayr!

Someone sharing the name of Jean-Claude Juncker’s chief of staff has joined Telegram.

Telegram, an encrypted messaging app, has a new customer. Someone sharing the name of Jean-Claude Juncker’s chief of staff has joined the service.

How does Playbook know? Because high-level EU figures received a notification on their phones Saturday evening when the Martin Selmayr account was activated.

It’s not clear if that happened because whoever is behind the Selmayr account forgot to turn off certain notifications, or because the service spammed Selmayr’s existing contacts.

If it’s the latter, Selmayr is well-placed to defend his rights. He happens to be the architect of the EU’s strict new data protection law!