Telegram Just Totally Broke The Trust Of Every Last User…

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Telegram users are doomed as the messaging app surrendered their user data to anti-free speech German authorities.

This could mean, the German police will have access to your personal information stored in Telegram. This is in contrast to what Telegram has been advertising to its users, wherein they offer end-to-end encryption and claim that they’re protecting their users by saying that they’ve thrown away the key.

I personally admire Telegram for its dedication to user data privacy, until now…Telegram has just handed over that very data to the anti-free speech, authoritarian German Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA.)

According to Der Spiegel, Telegram has submitted several data requests to the German Federal Criminal Police Office. These requests related to information about users suspected of terrorist activities and child abuse.

100 Percent Fed Up commented further:

While this particular data pertains to users suspected of terrorism and child abuse crimes, this deviation from the previous policy of never handing out data to any third party or government may be the beginning of a slippery slope.

Telegram’s website states that “to this day, we have disclosed 0 bytes of user data to third parties, including governments.” Clearly, this is no longer the case. And even if in this particular case there may have been, in some individuals’ opinions, good reason to disclose user data, it sets a poor precedent. What crimes will constitute the release of data next?

Between the January 6th Committee’s draconian and unconstitutional actions, and the thought police that many western nations such as Germany and the UK have, there are countless so-called “crimes” that do not warrant an invasion of privacy.

Additionally, many find it concerning for a company to be compelled by a foreign nation to give user data from any country up.

And this concern is echoed.

Here’s what the Epoch Times reported:

“Thanks to this structure, we can ensure that no single government or block of like-minded countries can intrude on people’s privacy and freedom of expression,” the company claims.

However, its recent German handover dents this narrative, raising the possibility that Telegram can be forced by other governments as well to submit private data.

Telegram was often seen as an excellent way of organizing protests and anti-government thought, given how Facebook and others more willingly hand over data to law enforcement, and other government entities.

However, Telegram’s recent German handover shatters this narrative, raising the risk that it would be required to disclose private data by other nations as well.

Telegram’s Privacy Policy also states that it may disclose a user’s IP address and phone number to government authorities if it receives a court order.

Sources: 100percentfedup, Epoch Times