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Telegram reveals that the communications platform has fulfilled 900 U.S. government requests, sharing the phone number or IP address information of 2,253 users with law enforcement.

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[–] AndrewZabar 7 points 4 days ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Hell no, it's only E2E in single conversations where you have activated it. Otherwise, it is not. And most people never activate it, so it never is. It's crazy how many people they managed to convince that it is E2E when it is not.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

"It has always been"

[–] Solumbran 6 points 4 days ago

Who could have guessed

/s

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

That's honestly pretty good news since Telegram has some pretty nasty stuff.