According to an official statement (https://telegram.org/blog/passport) published on July-26, the crypto and blockchain industry's go-to encrypted messenger app Telegram has released a personal ID verification authorization tool.
The name of that authorization tool is Telegram Passport, which encrypts a user's personal information and let's users can securely share their personal data with third parties, which Telegram post elaborates as (finance,ICO's,etc.).
Post further elaborates that, all Telegram Passport data will currently be stored on the Telegram cloud, but in the future, all data will move to a decentralized cloud.
According to the post, the new tool is currently integrated with digital payment operator ePayments (https://www.epayments.com/). Telegram also elaborates in their post that, ePayments is now the first electronic payments system to support registration and verification, via the new tool (Telegram Passport). They also claim that verification can be achieved in a few clicks. EPayments confirmed the integration on its Telegram channel (https://t.me/epaymentsEN/41).
