> Is it in practice a problem? No, it's not. This is not an assertion you can make. Because: > Telegram doesn't, as far as we know, give access to government

> Is it in practice a problem? No, it's not. This is not an assertion you can make. Because: > Telegram doesn't, as far as we know, give access to government or other third parties to the data of the users. Approximately every country (probably every, but haven't researched them all) has various court order types to go get this information and force secrecy on whoever is involved. Thus any information which is available to a company is equally available in secret via court orders. Nothing they can do to prevent it or tell you.