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Telegram Hands U.S. Authorities Data on Thousands of Users [404 Media] (www.404media.co)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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as if you needed more reasons to switch to Signal

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

I read that all the popular chat services provide similar information to law enforcement agencies. I don't think telegram is special in this regard.

Edit: https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2021/12/heres-what-data-the-fbi-can-get-from-whatsapp-imessage-signal-telegram-and-more

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

If it’s stored on their servers then it isn’t private

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

I'm generally given to trust Malwarebytes regarding cybersecurity, but they don't mention at all that E2E encryption is not the default messaging style on Telegram. That, plus the article being from 2021, makes me distrustful of that source.

Signal is still the only service I am aware of that does not store logs of user messages on servers. Messages only exist on the devices of individual users.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago

Depends if you consider Signal "popular", because based on your own link, the only information they provide is:

No message content., Date and time a user registered. Last date of a user’s connectivity to the service.