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Sam Bankman-Fried Lawyer Says Agreement Has Been Reached on Use of Messaging Apps

The former CEO of FTX was previously barred form using any messaging apps.

By Nelson Wang, Nikhilesh De
AccessTimeIconFeb 6, 2023 at 9:52 p.m. UTC
Updated Feb 7, 2023 at 7:42 p.m. UTC
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An attorney for Sam Bankman-Fried said an agreement had been reached by Bankman-Fried’s legal team and prosecutors to modify the former FTX CEO’s bail conditions on using electronic communications, according to a letter signed by Bankman-Fried attorney Mark Cohen.

The two sides are asking the court to modify Bankman-Fried's bail conditions to allow him to use various messaging apps, including FaceTime, Zoom, iMessage, SMS texts, emails, Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp. (For WhatsApp, Bankman-Fried's cell phone must have monitoring software installed to record those messages.)

The FTX founder will still not be able to use "ephemeral call or messaging applications" such as Signal.

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Nikhilesh De
Nikhilesh De

Nikhilesh De is CoinDesk's managing editor for global policy and regulation. He owns marginal amounts of bitcoin and ether.

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